ALBANY – The Adirondack Daily Enterprise received four journalism awards for 2015 from the New York News Publishers Association.

The NYNPA gives only first-place awards. The Enterprise competed in the under-10,000 circulation class. The awards were given out Monday at a banquet at the State Room restaurant in Albany.

Three reporters and two editors – Chris Knight, Matthew Turner, Tom Salitsky, Brittany Proulx and Peter Crowley – won the Breaking News prize for coverage of police capturing escaped prisoner and convicted cop killer David Sweat.

Those same three reporters – Salitsky, Turner and Knight – won the Feature Writing award for a three-part series on three local leaders in the ongoing struggle for LGBT (lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender) rights and acceptance.

Crowley won the Editorial Writing award for editorials on the (ultimately unsuccessful) decision to rename Paul Smith’s College.

Paul Willcott won the Column Writing prize for his biweekly column, “View from the Porch.”

“These awards represent the strong focus the Adirondack Daily Enterprise team has in producing quality journalism,” Publisher Catherine Moore said. “We have a fantastic team that is driven to work hard and takes pride in giving compelling content to our communities. No other media comes close to covering the area for local news. I’m extremely proud of their numerous awards, and from the comments we hear in the community, so are our readers.”

This is the third and last contest the Enterprise entered for 2015, and it brings the paper’s total number of awards from that calendar year to 22, nine of them first place. The Enterprise received 12 awards from the the New York Press Association, and six from the New York State Associated Press Association.