TUPPER LAKE — The Board of Tupper Arts has canceled the July 3 performance of the band Late Earth at the Tupper Lake Sunset Stage bandshell, which was to precede fireworks and kick off the 2020 Summer Sunset Series. Additionally, the next scheduled concert in the lineup has been postponed ...
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — The Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, will launch a new online discussion series exploring the realities of racism in the Adirondack region as well as the work of local organizations to address these challenges. The program is being developed in ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Five people died Saturday from the coronavirus in New York state, a death toll Gov. Andrew Cuomo called “the lowest number we have had since this started.” Saturday’s total compared to 13 fatalities the day before as the number of fatalities caused by the virus ...
TUPPER LAKE — Graduation caps went flying, car horns were honking, and the 2020 graduation class of Tupper Lake High School laughed together one last time at what high school Principal Russ Bartlett called “the graduation ceremony we thought might never happen.” Thursday’s ...
SARANAC LAKE — Ray Dora says he wanted to make sure the person who succeeded him as principal of St. Bernard’s School was well known by the community, as well as being qualified. He got that with Andrea Kilbourne-Hill, on many levels. Hired last week as the next head of this ...
TUPPER LAKE — This village’s Independence Day fireworks will take place on the Fourth of July instead of the third, as previously scheduled. This change of plans, finalized this week, got its start in a village board meeting a few months ago, when the board agreed to do the explosives ...
LAKE PLACID — Yvonne Nichols, co-owner of Lake Placid’s Boots and Birdies mini-golf course, was set to reopen her business this month. She’d secured a Paycheck Protection Program loan through the federal Small Business Administration a few weeks ago and used it to rehire her staff ...
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is opening up more campgrounds to existing reservations on July 1, including many popular ones in the Adirondack Park such as Fish Creek and the Saranac Lake Islands. “To maintain social distancing and reduce the density of facilities ...
TUPPER LAKE — The Wild Center nature museum will begin a phased reopening July 15, starting with the Wild Walk and other outdoor experiences. It will do this by implementing a limited capacity, going paperless and launching an app. “We’re excited to welcome visitors, members, staff ...
Former North Country congressman Bill Owens reached out to the Enterprise this week to say many Canadian citizens are worried about recent U.S. COVID-19 spikes, and he thinks they will push their government to extend the U.S.-Canada border closure though the end of the summer, at ...
LAKE PLACID — Northwood School administrators are piecing together a plan to bring students back to campus this fall. In a letter to the school’s students and their families on Tuesday, Head of School Michael Maher outlined a preliminary road map for reopening the private school’s ...
SARANAC LAKE — The village has learned it cannot use a $920,000 Community Development Block Grant to replace the 120-year-old water and sewer lines beneath Payeville Lane — but maybe it can use the federal funds to replace Lake Street’s sewer main. The CDBG program is designed to ...
SARANAC LAKE — This week, Adirondack Health will again offer off-peak hours for testing at Adirondack Medical Center’s COVID-19 clinic in Saranac Lake. Drive-up testing will be available from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Monday and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, by appointment. The COVID clinic ...
ALBANY — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, in cooperation with seven Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces, has announced the second annual Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Landing Blitz, a regional campaign to inform boaters and others about the risks of ...
PLATTSBURGH — The North Country has entered Phase 4, and the exclusion of malls has left some Champlain Centre tenants still shuttered and scratching their heads. Lake City Hobbies owner Greg Nephew thought the state’s reopening plan would make regional decisions, but felt the local ...
SCHUYLERVILLE — Last week, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, co-signed a letter to House leadership requesting that Congress provide the U.S. Department of Agriculture with $51 million to expand USDA’s match capability for the Gus Schumaker Nutrition Incentive Program. This program ...
RAY BROOK — Out with the young, in with the old. The state-run Adirondack prison in Ray Brook has again been converted, this time from a facility for teenage boys to a medium-security prison for men over 55. In 2018, the then-medium-security adult facility was converted to hold male ...
Starting today, gatherings of up to 50 people are allowed in the North Country region, and houses of worship can allow a few more people. As part of Phase 4 reopening, residents will be able to have social gatherings of up to 50 people, up from 25 people in Phase 3, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ...