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Malone Ford donates $4K to support local veterans

MALONE — For every vehicle sold during the month of May, Malone Ford pledged to donate $50 to Homeward Bound Adirondacks. On June 6, Doug Gilmour, owner of Malone Ford and a United States Marine Corps veteran, proudly presented a $4,000 donation to Valerie Ainsworth, executive director of ...

Homeward Bound executive director designated a Woman of Distinction

PLATTSBURGH — At a May 22 presentation in Plattsburgh, Assemblyman Billy Jones announced that Valerie Ainsworth, executive director of Homeward Bound Adirondacks, was designated a 2025 Woman of Distinction for her community and civic affairs work in “Service to Hometown Heroes.” She ...

Student news

Local student receives chemistry award at SUNY Oneonta - ONEONTA — Madison Klotzko of Upper Jay was one of nine SUNY Oneonta students from the chemistry and biochemistry department who received awards this semester. Klotzko was a recipient of the Chemistry and Biochmesity Department ...

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Local news deemed ‘essential’ but strained amid outbreak

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 ...

With Maple Weekends canceled, here’s a sugarhouse tour

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 ...

The shows might go on …

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 ...

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Slap-happy volunteer

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 ...

Volunteers of the Year: Rich and Debby Harrison

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 ...

Library Ladies

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 ...

Making masks by the thousands

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 ...

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‘The definition of hard work’

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 ...

95 years on the keys and counting

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 ...

From the Adirondacks to the Senate

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 ...

New York City theater manager got his start in Saranac Lake

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 ...