SARANAC LAKE — Students attending Petrova Elementary School are going remote Friday after a member of the school community tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday afternoon. Students are expected to return to class Tuesday, after the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, according to ...

SARANAC LAKE — As he watched the coronavirus spread throughout the United States, with this country surpassing all others in the number of cases reported, Dr. Tony Holtzman sought to answer a question. “How can it be that the wealthiest country in the world, and among the most ...

SARANAC LAKE — Saranac Lake students in grades 7 through 12 are going remote Thursday and Friday, Superintendent Diane Fox said in a call to parents at around 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. Fox said a member of the middle-high school community had tested positive for COVID-19 but did not specify ...

WATERTOWN — Kinney Drugs opened COVID-19 vaccination appointments for people aged 65 and older Wednesday afternoon, but the slots quickly filled up. The pharmacy website opened at about 2:30 p.m. Just before 5 p.m., a notification was released that the available slots were ...

What vaccines have been approved? Currently, two COVID-19 vaccines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and New York state’s independent Clinical Advisory Task Force: one that was developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, and another that was developed by Moderna. ...

SARANAC LAKE — Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau has released his poster design for the 2021 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. Using this Carnival’s designated theme, “Mask-erade” — which Trudeau spells with the more traditional “Masquerade” — the poster shows multiple ...