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NYSPHA announces climate workshop in Lake Placid

LAKE PLACID — New York State Public Health Association’s Climate Committee will present “Climate Communications Through the Arts: Sparking Community Engagement” at High Peaks Resort on on April 22. “Climate Communications Through the Arts” coincides with the 56th anniversary of ...

St. Armand BESS project faces resistance, others amped up

BLOOMINGDALE – The St. Armand town council passed a one-year moratorium on the installation of battery energy storage systems on Thursday, an effort to give the community more time to research this new technology and decide whether or not they want one in their town. The energy company ...

Two finalists in search for new SLCSD superintendent

SARANAC LAKE – There are two finalists in the running to become the Saranac Lake Central School District’s new superintendent next year – Lisa Ruud, a current superintendent of schools for a district in Vermont, and SLCSD high school Principal Josh Dann. The Board of Education named ...

Independent candidate for NY-21 wants to expand House to 6,600 members

Brian R. Rouleau, an independent candidate who is seeking to represent northern New York in Congress, would like to see the U.S. House dramatically grow from just 435 voting members to more than 6,600. Rouleau, 44, who works as a developmental disabilities secure care treatment aide at the ...

‘Brink of collapse’

ALBANY — Mark Souza remembers what he describes as the “crash.” It was 2019 and what started as a normal Friday quickly devolved into chaos, when the then-volunteer emergency medical services coordinator for Fulton County learned the Ambulance Service of Fulton County had ceased ...