GROTON, Conn. — Chief Petty Officer Sarah LaFave, a native of Tupper Lake, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to USS Iowa, the Navy’s newest fast-attack submarine. As a submariner, LaFave is part of a small percentage of Navy personnel who serve under the sea to help ensure Americans’ ...
NEW YORK — The American Culinary Federation has recognized chef Paul Sorgule as a recipient of the ACF Presidential Medallion for lifetime achievement, the highest honor bestowed by the ACF National President and presented this year by Chef Rene Marquis. This distinction is reserved for ...
SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Plein Air Festival wrapped at the end of August with record attendance and community engagement. Over six days, 40 artists from across the country painted the Adirondack landscape in real time, capturing everything from misty mountain mornings to busy village ...
Jennifer Zahn, a Saranac Laker and Enterprise subscriber, has a morning ritual. She wakes up at 6 a.m. every day, goes downstairs and grabs her copy of the newspaper. She said she likes to know what’s going on in town and feels that she would be out of the loop without the newspaper. She ...
LAKE PLACID — Since the New York State Maple Producers’ Association canceled the Maple Weekends — March 21-22 and March 28-29 — and the state government has issued public assembly restrictions and social-distancing guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic, residents and tourists have ...
Teachers Brenden Gotham and Taylor Prosper painted sets for Lake Placid High School’s production of “Cinderella” Saturday night. They dipped brushes and created a fairy tale world. A feeling in the pit of their stomachs filled them with uncertainty, but they kept painting anyway. “I ...
SARANAC LAKE — Liam Lawless gets a rush out of slapping slush. Lawless, 6, was possibly the youngest member of the Ice Palace Workers Local 101 this year. On Jan. 23, after his birthday earlier that week and after months of hounding his dad, Ken, to join the volunteers, he was finally ...
The Enterprise’s volunteer of the year this year is actually two volunteers — Debby and Rich Harrison of Rainbow Lake. “You can’t have one without the other,” Janice Fitzgerald wrote in her letter nominating the couple for the distinction. “They are a team who put service above ...
KEENE VALLEY — Keene’s two libraries, traditionally separate entities, have been operating as one since the beginning of this past November. Keene Public Library Director Aaron Miller, library staff, as well as the computer system and part of the book collection, have moved temporarily to ...
SARANAC LAKE — A year into the pandemic, it’s sometimes hard to remember that masks were once a scarce commodity. Long before they came in every style, pattern and color imaginable, a group of local volunteer artists and seamstresses banded together to make them from scratch. After her ...
TUPPER LAKE — In his 21 years with the Tupper Lake Central School District, Sean Auclair has probably encountered — and solved — almost every school infrastructure issue imaginable. Whether it’s arriving as early as 3:30 a.m. to begin plowing, sanding and salting parking lots and ...
SARANAC LAKE — Tomi Gallagher ran her fingers over the keys of a baby grand piano inside the great room of the Saranac Village at Will Rogers retirement community. The light and cheery notes of her “warm-up song” rang out, slow, then fast and rich with atmosphere — the result of 95 ...
In November, like many recent college graduates, Charlotte Ward returned home for Thanksgiving. Unlike most college graduates, she came back with her new boss, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, in tow. Ward is a native of Jay and a correspondence assistant in Schumer’s office. On the ...
Though he is now a seasoned theater veteran, Saranac Lake native Peter Dean’s first role was small but mighty: A puny pickpocket in a 1980 production of “Oliver!” at the Harrietstown Town Hall. “It’s a time-honored tradition: The role of the youngest pickpocket, that is ultimately ...