SARANAC LAKE — After eight years, Jennifer Hunt will leave her position as executive director of the Adirondack Carousel to pursue other opportunities. Her successor is Ashley Milne, a member of the carousel board as well as a councilwoman for the town of Harrietstown. “We wish to ...

TUPPER LAKE — Libby Gillis earned the Girl Scouts’ highest level, the Gold Award, in October 2020 for her work to raise awareness about climate change. A Gold Award is equivalent to the Boy Scouts’ Eagle Scout designation. Gillis is a junior at Tupper Lake High School and the ...

LAKE PLACID — Northwood School has been awarded grants to support the Adirondack Wildlife Inventory and Monitoring Project, a long-term monitoring program focused on collecting wildlife occurrence and climate data in the Adirondack Park. Grants have been received from the Toshiba ...

KEESEVILLE — The Board of Directors of Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) has announced that Steven Engelhart will retire on Sept. 1 as the organization’s executive director after serving as its leader for almost 30 years. AARCH’s Board of Directors has formally launched a ...

PAUL SMITHS — Joseph A. Henderson, Paul Smith’s College Environment and Society faculty member, alongside K.C. Busch of North Carolina State University, secured a $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation to advance climate change education research. Together, Busch and Henderson, ...

BLOOMINGDALE — Good Guy Productions, an event company based in Bloomingdale, has won the Wedding Wire and The Knot “Best of Couples’ Choice Award” for the sixth consecutive year. Founded in 2007, Wedding Wire’s portfolio of sites helps couples around the world compare and book ...