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ORDA to buy historic Main Street shop

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LAKE PLACID — Main Street will be saying farewell to the building situated in front of the Olympic Center — known now as There and Back Again and formerly home to the Arena Grill — as the Olympic Regional Development Authority prepares to acquire the property. In a meeting on Friday, ...

State lawmakers pass budget

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ALBANY — The New York state budget has passed — lawmakers in the state Assembly and Senate wrapped up voting on the $254 billion state spending plan late Thursday night. In a series of nine bills, the state legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul agreed on a wide-ranging array of policy and ...

A neighborhood 150 years in the making

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SARANAC LAKE — A century-and-a-half ago, Edward Livingston Trudeau was drumming up support to build the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, an experimental community to treat tuberculosis. It was an odd idea, and took initial investors some time to get on board, but Trudeau believed strongly ...

Village of Tupper Lake adopts $3.3M budget

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TUPPER LAKE — The Tupper Lake Village Board voted unanimously during its April 21 meeting to adopt a budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year. The budget falls under the state-imposed tax cap, and also marks a slight decrease in total spending — and the tax rate — from last year’s ...

Celebration planned for the renaming of Murry Hill

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VERMONTVILLE — A commemoration and celebration of the newly renamed Murry Hill in the Town of Franklin will be held Saturday, May 17, at 4 p.m. at the Union Cemetery on state Route 3 in Vermontville. Curt Stager will discuss the history of the Murry family and Civil War era Black ...

When volunteerism could save a life at any moment

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LAKE PLACID — When they were roused out of bed in the early morning on May 1, Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department members John Fagan and Ciana Cerruti didn’t expect to be saving someone’s life. The department responded to an automatic fire alarm activation at 89 Greenwood Street, ...