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Fourth graders read poetry at ACW

SARANAC LAKE — A dozen students from Krystie Sorci and Brittany Fobare’s 4th grade classes at Petrova Elementary School visited the Adirondack Center for Writing on Friday to read poems they wrote, which are currently hanging in storefronts around the village. ACW Programs Manager Tyler ...

A plate of their own

SARANAC LAKE — Charles Williams has been cooking up meals in local kitchens since he got his first summer job here in 1993, and now he has a restaurant of his own in downtown Saranac Lake with his wife Rikelmy, where they plan to serve up staples from their own home table. “It’s what me ...

AMC announces April births

Wood: A daughter, Wrenley Mae, born April 4, 2023 at 4:43 a.m., weighing 5 lbs. 14 oz. to Katelynn Thompson and Logan Wood of Bloomingdale. Farrington: A son, Dean Arthur, born April 18, 2023 at 5:14 p.m., weighing 7 lbs. 14 oz. to Jaclyn and Colin Farrington of Saranac Lake. Buck: A ...

Former Enterprise reporter, NYT staff are Pulitzer finalists

SARANAC LAKE — A former reporter for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Christopher Mele, was part of a group of New York Times staff honored this week as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for breaking news coverage. The slate of Pulitzer Prize finalists and winners — chosen by juries as the best ...

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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 (robot) doctor is in

SARANAC LAKE — When Tri-Lakes resident Matt Cook has dialysis patients to see in Plattsburgh, Elizabethtown and Malone, it would usually take at least a one-hour drive between each clinic. But with new technology the Plattsburgh-based kidney disease clinic he works at has adopted in recent ...

Choosing positivity in 2023

SARANAC LAKE — The sound of a fiddle filled Saranac Lake’s Main Street Friday as 17-year-old Arden Calhoun pulled a bow across her violin’s strings, bringing smiles to the faces of people passing by. The smiles, hugs and support Calhoun received that day represented what she and several ...

Filming ‘Survivor’

LAKE PLACID — Katie Uhlaender, a five-time Olympic skeleton racer living at the Olympic Training Center, is flying to Fiji today to be part of the crew filming the 43rd season of the television reality show “Survivor.” “Survivor” is one of the most popular contest reality TV shows ...