Despite declining enrollment and increasing expenses, local public schools remain an economic driver in small North Country communities, a new report from the statewide Association of School Business Officials shows. The first-of-its-kind ASBO report was released Monday, generated by ...

LAKE PLACID — A “help wanted” sign posted at the front door of a downtown clothing store this past week has sparked controversy for being what some perceive as discriminatory against local residents. The sign, posted by business owner Tom Dalton on the door of his store ADK ...

TUPPER LAKE — More than 30 town residents turned out to the first public unveiling of the town’s draft of a new joint zoning land use code Thursday. They heard from the urban planning firm Randall and West, which oversaw the creation of the draft, and expressed concerns with a few of ...

RAY BROOK — Two teenage inmates accused of attacking a corrections officer at the Adirondack Adolescent Offender Facility here were charged May 10 with assault and strangulation, almost three months after the alleged attack. State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

PLATTSBURGH — North Country prisons have been spared from the chopping block as the state will close two units elsewhere. According to State Assemblyman Billy Jones, D-Chateaugay, Livingston Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in western New York, and Lincoln Correctional ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has released its finalized recreation plan for almost 5,000 acres of conservation easement land near Long Lake, and it includes expanded hiking, camping and mountain biking opportunities. The Cedarlands easement was secured by the DEC in ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS (AP) — Lois Clermont, former longtime journalist with the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh, has been named the recipient of the New York State Associated Press Association’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. Clermont will receive the award June 1 at the NYSAPA’s ...

SARANAC LAKE — The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Friday that its contractors will begin the final stage of restoration and rehabilitation work in and along Pontiac Bay and Brandy Brook on Monday. The project, which removed contaminated soils and sediment from ...

SARANAC LAKE — In planning for its 98th Annual Dinner, the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce is requesting nominations from its members and the community for the Don Duso Citizen of the Year. The award, which will be presented at the Annual Dinner on June 19, will go to a community ...

TUPPER LAKE — Everyone was dressed up, the ceiling of the Wild Center’s Big Wolf Great Hall was lit up purple, and dozens of family and friends waited for 13-year-old Aubrey Sparks to enter the room. “Stop,” said her mother, Meaghan. Meaghan wanted her daughter to drink it all ...

PLATTSBURGH — North Country prisons have been spared from the chopping block as the state will close two units elsewhere. According to State Assemblyman Billy Jones, D-Chateaugay, Livingston Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in western New York, and Lincoln Correctional ...

UTICA — Jack Roberson has resigned as executive director of the Adirondack Railway Preservation Society, a nonprofit organization that oversees the Adirondack Scenic Railroad, and Justin Gonyo, former general manager of the Saratoga & North Creek Railway, has been appointed interim ...

LAKE PLACID — For Artur Novoselsky, a 30-year-old musician based in New York City, growing up in Lake Placid is an experience that has never left him. Though he no longer lives in the village, Novoselsky still feels rooted here. “As much as the city is now my home, whenever ...

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid’s Board of Education had just completed a budget hearing on Tuesday when a robot rolled in the door. The robot was 3 to 4 feet tall — a carefully crafted cluster of wires, pulleys and belts all contained within a sparse metal framework atop a motorized ...

PLATTSBURGH — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is among those attempting to install bipartisan legislation that would address contaminants in drinking water like those found in groundwater around the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base. The legislation Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is pushing with ...

LAKE PLACID — A new composting machine is set to be installed at the Lake Placid Middle-High School this summer. The $35,000 composter was recently purchased with grant funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, North Country School and the New York ...

Despite a drought and early snow last fall, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said the state’s population of white-tailed deer survived the winter well. According to the Winter Severity Index, several thaws and warmer-than-average temperatures may have helped deer get ...

LAKE PLACID — Part of one lane of Main Street downtown was closed to traffic Wednesday as a construction crew prepared to install a new water line. The water line is being installed at 2423 Main St., outside of Pure Placid and Ben & Jerry’s. Work on the project began Monday and is ...