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Lake Placid hotels going ‘gangbusters’

LAKE PLACID — Hoteliers across the country are fighting to keep their businesses open, struggling to attract travelers amid the coronavirus pandemic as bills come due. Lake Placid’s hospitality industry, however, is thriving. Lake Placid hoteliers say travelers are coming in droves, and ...

Saranac Lake Farmers Market will return to ‘Park-it’ model

SARANAC LAKE — For the last few years, the Saturday village farmers market has migrated inside when the temperature dropped, from Riverside Park to the atrium of the Hotel Saranac. This year, as one more thing that’s changed because of the pandemic, the farmers market will move to a ...

Northern Power & Light adds Potsdam dam as electricity source

POTSDAM — Northern Power & Light Inc., the Saranac Lake-based power company, has added the Sissonville hydroelectric facility to its portfolio of renewable electricity producers. The Sissonville hydro dam, located on the Raquette River and 1.5 miles downstream from the Potsdam ...

Ski resorts struggle to hire amid Trump’s student visa ban

DENVER — Milagros Sotelo was looking forward to traveling from South America to Tennessee to start a job at Ober Gatlinburg ski resort this winter. The 22-year-old student worked the last two ski seasons in the equipment rental shop at the small resort nestled in the Smoky Mountains and was ...

With aid program expired, airlines and Amtrak prepare cuts

RENSSELAER — Airlines and Amtrak are preparing for deep cutbacks in capacity and staffing as federal programs to support continuing operations expire. At Amtrak, as many as 2,050 jobs are to be eliminated. U.S. airlines, meanwhile, plan to cut as many as 35,000 positions. What has ...

Guns sell fast as buyers worry about civil unrest

MIDDLETOWN — Area gun shop owners say that since they’ve been allowed to reopen, many have seen a spike in sales, while at the same time they can’t keep up their stock. It’s fueled by fears of socioeconomic uncertainty and the idea that civil unrest seen elsewhere in the state and ...