SARANAC LAKE — Play ADK will host the 2025 Saranac Lake Corrugated Cup Cardboard Boat Race on Saturday, Aug. 30, at Riverfront Park. This family-friendly fundraiser promises a day of creative fun and friendly competition. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., participants can register to race and build ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Franklin and Essex County Soil and Water Conservation Districts are partnering together to host a free septic workshop open to the public at the Saranac Lake Free Library at 109 Main St. on Sept. 22 at 6:30 p.m. Guest speaker James Moser, from Moser Engineering, ...

SARANAC LAKE — A talk with novelist Suzanne Uttaro Samuels about her new book, Seeds of the Pomegranate, will take place Tuesday, Sept. 2, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the John Black Room at the Saranac Laboratory Museum at 89 Church Street, Saranac Lake. Amy Catania, executive director of ...

CROGHAN — The Adirondack Mennonite Heritage Association kicked off its summer season with the 33rd Zwanzigstein — 20 stones Fest of “... strangers and pilgrims on the Earth,” Hebrews 11:13b — in July at the Mennonite Heritage Farm. “We had a beautiful day and made use of our ...

ALBANY — The state Public Service Commission has approved a rate hike pitched by National Grid that will initially add about $22 per month to the average upstate resident’s power and gas bill. Meeting in the state capital on Thursday morning, the PSC approved the request from ...

LAKE PLACID — State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warned at an event on Friday, Aug. 8 that federal cuts and other funding challenges are likely to impact access to services in rural North Country communities. The state is committed to helping, he said, but won’t be able to fill in the gap ...