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 ...
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 ...
BLOOMINGDALE — Jocelyn Jock was driving through the Adirondacks recently when she spotted a dead porcupine on the side of the road. So she pulled over and started plucking out its quills. “At first I was just pulling handfuls out of it, just thanking the creator,” she ...
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 ...