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Keeping Cape Air

SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Regional Airport is keeping Cape Air as its commercial airline. The U.S. Department of Transportation has decided to continue its federal contract with the airline. The Harrietstown town board had recommended that the DOT contract with SkyWest Airlines at SLK ...

State court delays lawsuit seeking to axe howitzer hearing

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Article 78 proceeding against the Adirondack Park Agency’s adjudicatory hearing for a proposed howitzer testing range in the town of Lewis has been delayed two months. The proceeding, which seeks to nullify the APA board’s vote to hold the hearing, was initiated by ...

Adirondack Health Foundation to host rural health symposium

SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Health Foundation will host a rural health symposium titled “Navigating Change: The state of rural healthcare in an uncertain era” on Friday, March 20 beginning at 9:30 a.m. Leaders from healthcare, education and public health will convene to engage in a ...

Fair Food card project gives families access to locally grown food

KEESEVILLE — Families across the Adirondacks are gaining new, reliable access to fresh, locally produced food through AdkAction’s Fair Food Card, now coordinated in partnership with Women, Infants and Children offices throughout the region. WIC is a federal nutrition service that supports ...

Church explosion in Boonville injures 5 people, including firefighters

BOONVILLE (AP) — A fiery explosion that ripped through a church in central New York on Tuesday injured five people, including the pastor and firefighters who responded to a report of a gas odor in the building, officials said. New York State Police were investigating the blast, which sent ...

Update: State Police release name, cause of death for Mount Marcy hiker

KEENE -- State Police released the name and cause of death of the person who died while hiking Mount Marcy on Thursday. Brianna L. Mohr, 21, of Brick, New Jersey, was found near Mount Marcy's summit Thursday night by state Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers and showed no ...