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Foreign language fund awards $35,000 to schools

LAKE PLACID — The Adirondack Foreign Language Enhancement Fund at Adirondack Foundation has awarded $53,329 in grants to 21 classrooms across the Adirondack region. AFLEF awards grants annually to support innovation in French and Spanish classrooms and elevate the status of language ...

Believe me, it’s all relative

When my cousin Francis Hogan, former Postmaster General of Rainbow Lake, called me and then mailed me pieces of a copy of the Enterprise from Oct. 11, 1966, little did I know that it would lead to this column. Francis’ father Bill Hogan, son of Esther Keegan Hogan, and my mother, Elizabeth ...

‘Out like a lamb’

LAKE PLACID — At North Country School, an average spring day might include spending the night in the barn listening in case a pregnant sheep goes into labor, watching your teachers deliver a lamb or hanging out in camp chairs in a steaming sugar hut as sap is boiled into dark, rich maple ...

DEC raises flag for trans visibility

RAY BROOK — Wednesday was a cold and windy day in the Adirondacks. Still, nearly 100 people bundled up and gathered outside the DEC headquarters in Ray Brook to recognize Trans Day of Visibility and to honor Forest Ranger Robbi Mecus, a trans woman who died in a climbing accident in ...

TLCSD voters will decide several propositions, election next month

TUPPER LAKE — Tupper Lake Central School district voters have more than a budget to consider when they head to the polls on May 20. These include an election for one open seat on TLCSD’s Board of Education, a proposition for one new school bus and a proposition to create a capital ...