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Lewis residents sound off at howitzer info session

LEWIS — Around 40 town residents and area stakeholders packed into the Lewis firehouse Monday evening for an information session on the upcoming Adirondack Park Agency adjudicatory hearing to decide the fate of a howitzer testing range proposed in the town. The standing room only meeting ...

NY-21 candidates gather funds

Republican congressional candidate Robert Smullen personally loaned his campaign $500,000 as he launched his primary campaign against self-funding candidate Anthony Constantino. Constantino, an Amsterdam businessman who lives in Edinburg, Saratoga County, has personally loaned his campaign ...

Bloomingdale Elementary decision looms

BLOOMINGDALE — The Saranac Lake Central School District Board of Education will meet Wednesday to discuss three resolutions about the future of the district’s three school buildings. One resolution would close Bloomingdale Elementary School and the Middle School, one resolution would ...

St. Bernard’s School considers adding 6th grade

SARANAC LAKE — As the Saranac Lake Central School District discusses reconfiguring its school buildings, St. Bernard’s School Principal Andrea Kilbourne-Hill said her school is considering adding a sixth-grade class. Currently, the private Catholic school has classes from Pre-K to fifth ...

Tupper structure fire displaces family, no injuries

TUPPER LAKE — A quick response from the Tupper Lake Volunteer Fire Department and several other area departments that rushed to the scene on mutual aid kept a Friday night structure fire from being much worse. The fire broke out at 31 Cedar St., the old Moose lodge, at 10:02 p.m. Friday. ...

A cold scare

BLOOMINGDALE — Amid a discussion about the future of Bloomingdale Elementary School, Saranac Lake Central School District Facilities Director Vernon James shared some chilling news about the school building at last week’s Wednesday board meeting. A malfunction in the heating system had ...