WILMINGTON — Incumbent Highway Superintendent Louis Adragna prevailed on Tuesday in one of only half a dozen contested primary elections in Essex County. Adragna earned 49 out of 91 votes, with challenger Cameron Grady earning 35 votes. The third candidate in the Republican primary was ...

SARANAC LAKE — Jake Allen stood on stage deftly picking a guitar, performing as the real-life musician Benjamin Scheuer, as his fellow “cast” of five more guitars waited in the wings. As Ben mourns his father’s death, Allen’s soft plucking turned to angry, minor-key ...

Primary elections in Essex County are taking place today, with contested races for a number of town seats in Wilmington, Willsboro, Elizabethtown, Ticonderoga and North Hudson. Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. There are six Republican primary elections in Essex County — for ...

LAKE PLACID — Hikers planning to venture into the High Peaks have a new comprehensive, interactive and expertly crafted resource at their fingertips: hikeadk.com. The website launched on June 13 and offers detailed trail route descriptions, recent conditions reports, trip preparation ...

FRANKLIN — State Police charged a Lake Placid man with endangering the welfare of a child last week after allegedly hitting a child. John C. Piper, 56, of Lake Placid, was arrested on June 17 at 3:28 p.m. after New York State Police responded to a report of an assault on Swinyer ...

Maria Weston Kuhn had one lingering question about the car crash that forced her to have emergency surgery during a vacation in Ireland: Why did she and her mother sustain serious injuries while her father and brother, who sat in the front, emerge unscathed? “It was a head-on crash and ...