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Cashman settling in as region’s newest Assemblymember

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SARANAC LAKE — State Assemblyman Michael S. Cashman, D-Plattsburgh, didn’t have too much time to celebrate his victory in a hotly contested special election race for the 115th district on Nov. 4. The reason? His new job started almost immediately after the results came in. Unlike a ...

Improv, irony and accents

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SARANAC LAKE — The small crowd watching the rehearsal of Pendragon Theatre’s “The Gift of the Magi” on Wednesday could not contain their laughter. As middle school actors dragged the adult actors around the stage, cooing like pigeons or putting on thick New York City-style ...

Letting it all out

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SARANAC LAKE — AI music videos; personal attacks; allegations of propaganda, misinformation and secrecy; concerns of a lack of transparency and hurt feelings. Emotions ran high in a discussion around the proposed public safety complex at 33 Petrova on Monday, as several long-standing ...

Lake Placid native’s jersey retired at SUNY Oswego

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LAKE PLACID — The SUNY Oswego men’s hockey program has had hundreds of men’s hockey players in its more than 60 years of existence. But there’s only one player whose jersey hangs from the rafters. During an Oswego State men’s hockey game on Nov. 15 against Skidmore College, ...

What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated

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Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eiisrght consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah ...