WAITSFIELD, Vt. — The Northern Forest Canoe Trail has announced the hiring of Nick Hall as its new assistant trail director. Hall has been with the NFCT’s stewardship program since 2024, when he worked as an intern. In 2025, Hall led the Allagash work crew, executing and completing a ...
LAKE PLACID — Last month, Mercy Care for the Adirondacks held a spirituality retreat at the Paul Smith’s College VIC on the topic of “Living Well: Caring for the Human Spirit in Times of Growth and Change.” Open to the public, the Mercy Care Spirituality Retreat offered a day immersed ...
SARANAC LAKE — George J. Bryjak’s book, “A Nation Born, A Homeland Lost: Native Americans And The Revolutionary War Era,” was awarded a Silver Medal in the history category by the Military Writers Society of America. Bryjak’s reader-friendly work explores the four major wars ...
SARANAC LAKE — North Country Community College has announced the appointment of Thompson “Tommy” Sloan as the new student representative to the college’s board of trustees. Sloan, a second-year criminal justice student, joined the board in August and will serve as the voice of the ...
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 ...
SUGARBUSH — It’s 12 degrees below zero, and Sara Burke is counting pigs. Several dozen of them have stampeded to the fence for feeding time, and she can barely be heard over their squealing. “I count so that if one turns up missing, if it’s sick or doesn’t come for food, we can ...
SARANAC LAKE — Asparagus, rhubarb, lumber and llamas. When Jake and Erin Vennie-Vollrath bought Moonstone Farm on state Route 3 this fall, the farm had been successfully producing for over 100 years. Well, except for the llamas. They’re there “because people like llamas,” said Jake. ...
SARANAC LAKE — Carl Bowen is a man with a mission. As director of nutritional services at Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, he’s determined to give every patient and staff member the ability to eat healthily. And it’s not going to cost them a fortune. On a bright sunny day ...
GABRIELS — Like farmwives of old, Stephanie DeJoseph of Iron Rooster Farm works all the time, rising at 5:30 every morning to take care of her family and her farm. If she’s not on her feet, she’s working with her hands, making art or seated at one of several sewing machines. She takes ...
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 ...