SARANAC LAKE — Last Friday, Ann Merkel and other original High Peaks Hospice founders gathered at The Saranac Village at Will Rogers, where filmmaker Jim Griebsch began to create a video to document the story of High Peaks Hospice’s beginnings. High Peaks Hospice’s 35th Anniversary ...

With the state Department of Health discontinuing its COVID-19 contact tracing Virtual Call Center last week, local public health departments are now shifting their focus from calling those who may have been exposed to COVID-19 and recording every positive case to concentrating on vulnerable ...

SARANAC LAKE — Beginning Monday, May 2, Adirondack Health’s visitation policy will allow two designated visitors per patient at Adirondack Medical Center. The policy previously only allowed for one designated visitor due to heightened COVID-19 numbers. Two designated visitors per ...

MALONE — In observance of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Franklin County Suicide Prevention Coalition, Community Connections of Franklin County and North Country Community College are planning events for the first week of May. The first event is set for 2 to 6 p.m. May 2 at Malone’s ...

LAKE PLACID — The Dr. U.R. Plante Medical Scholarship is accepting applications now through May 16. The Plante Scholarship at Adirondack Foundation is awarded annually to medical students who have resided in the Adirondack Park — or in St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton, Essex or Hamilton ...