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Recent law school grad Badran joins Norfolk Law
LAKE PLACID — Norfolk Law PLLC announced last week that recent law school graduate Ayah Badran has joined the firm. Badran recently received her Juris Doctor degree from Vermont Law School, where she was a student in the accelerated honors program and focused on environmental law. She ...
Lori Fitzgerald joins Norfolk Law support staff
LAKE PLACID — Norfolk Law PLLC last week announced the hiring of Lori Fitzgerald as a paralegal. She will support attorneys Matthew Norfolk, founder of the Lake Placid firm, Jill Beier, and Ayah Badran, who also recently joined the firm and will sit for the bar exam in October. She joins ...
Outdoor rec in Lake George sees gains amid pandemic
LAKE GEORGE — It was supposed to be a summer full of roller coasters and water rides for the Liffords, but instead it’s been one of checkers and trying new things. The family of four are “infrequent” hikers, but decided to make the steep trek up the newly reopened Prospect ...
A sanctuary in more ways than one
VERMONTVILLE — A small slate sign by the dirt driveway reads “Sanctuary Farm,” a fitting name for the tiny farm that Denise Griffin works when she’s not working full-time at the hospital. Griffin, 60, an emergency room nurse who splits shifts between the Saranac Lake and Lake ...
Rural real estate heats up as New York City dwellers face COVID-19 reality
Rob Anderson, an electrician for Consolidated Edison, has been mulling the purchase of a second home for years. The pandemic made him pull the trigger. Anderson and his son, a New York City police officer, are closing in on the purchase of a log cabin on five acres in northwestern ...




