SARANAC LAKE – The deadline to nominate businesses, organizations, people and places for the Readers’ Choice for Best of the Mountains 2026 is coming right up at the stroke of midnight on Sunday evening. Then, a month of voting for the best of the best kicks off immediately in the wee ...

SARANAC LAKE – The village board is considering a $7.3 million budget which sits below the tax cap, includes raises for staff, accounts for rising costs and raises water and sewer rates for the first time in several years. A public hearing on the tentative budget and the proposed water and ...

TUPPER LAKE — The Franklin County Industrial Development Agency board voted to approve a 20-year PILOT agreement for the now-shuttered Oval Wood Dish factory on Demars Boulevard, likely setting the stage for workforce housing development to begin this summer. The vote was unanimous with one ...

KEENE—The Adirondack Garden Club is now accepting applications for two grant programs offered this year. The Ellen Lea Paine Memorial Nature Fund, established in 2005, provides financial assistance to individuals and nonprofit organizations, including schools, whose programs support the ...

ALBANY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation on Monday released safety statistics for the 2025 hunting season. The numbers are good news: it was New York’s safest season since the DEC began keeping official records in 2001, according to DEC spokesman Jeff Wernick. This ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced on Monday that hunters harvested an estimated 1,759 black bears during the 2025-26 hunting seasons. According to DEC’s tracking of the annual bear harvest since 1955, the 2025 statewide bear harvest was second only to the 2003 ...