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World Cup aerials final moves to Lake Placid

LAKE PLACID — U.S. Ski and Snowboard recently announced that the aerials portion of the Freestyle World Cup event, originally scheduled to take place at Deer Valley Resort, will be moved to Lake Placid between Jan. 16 to 18. The move comes following unseasonably warm weather out west, ...

Roller coaster day of weather for Tri-Lakes

SARANAC LAKE — Winter is showing no signs of slowing down. Another mixed precipitation storm, accompanied by gusty winds, is pushing through the Tri-Lakes region today. Behind it, temperatures will plummet, with highs on Tuesday expected to remain stuck in the single digits. The storm ...

Structure fire causes heavy damage to Lake Clear rental cabin

LAKE CLEAR — One of the Rockledge Cabins, a short-term rental property, was heavily damaged after a Saturday afternoon structure fire. There were no deaths or injuries, and the group of renters staying there at the time had made it out when firefighters first arrived. The Saranac Lake ...

A cedar seed

SARANAC LAKE — Local ceramics artist Jazen Reuss is preparing to reopen the former BluSeed Studios arts center as Cedar Street Studios. Months after BluSeed — a pillar of the local arts community — dissolved amid a “dire” financial situation, Reuss is preparing to purchase the ...

Christmas grants

Several local organizations and villages received Christmas presents in the form of state grants this week as the state Regional Economic Development Councils rolled out a slate of funding for a local theater renovation in Lake Placid, rail trail signage, a regional marketing campaign, a ...

Amid a battery boom, graphite mining gets a fresh look

GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. — Graphite mines in the United States largely closed down seven decades ago. Mining the ubiquitous mineral found in everything from nuclear reactors to pencils seemed to make little sense when it could be imported inexpensively from other nations, especially China. That ...