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Bionique eyes expansion of services in new building

SARANAC LAKE — Bionique Testing Laboratories celebrated the grand opening of its expanded facility at the Harrietstown Business Park on Friday, marking the space where the company will expand its services and products to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving industry. The completion of ...

Making monsters and teacups

LAKE PLACID — The fear of losing jobs to an increasingly digitized world is not new, at least not for professional artists. Anthony Clark Pierce, who will be featured at this year’s Lake Placid Film Festival, was in art school more than 30 years ago when one film sent a shock wave ...

Drought warning issued to 12 New York counties

ALBANY — On Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul, with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, announced a drought warning for 12 counties in the Adirondack and Southern Tier regions and a drought watch that was expanded to include six counties in the Susquehanna region. New York State ...

Eyewitnesses describe seeing manhunt suspect

PAUL SMITHS -- Roger Brubaker was working in his home office on Easy Street Friday morning when he looked out his window and saw a homicide suspect walking down the street. Anthony G. Bechand, 53, has been the subject of a 12-day manhunt across the Brighton-Paul Smiths area. He is suspected ...

Citizens spot manhunt suspect, police make arrest on Friday morning

RAY BROOK — State Police captured Anthony G. Bechand, the 53-year-old Cohoes man wanted in connection with the Sept. 13 stabbing death of his girlfriend, on Friday morning. Troopers received two tips from civilians about a “suspicious individual” walking near Paul Smith's College on ...

A decade of road salt reduction

LAKE GEORGE — Phil Sexton remembers a time not too long ago when brine was viewed with near universal skepticism as an alternative treatment to granular salt in winter. Speaking at the 10th annual Adirondack Champlain Regional Salt Summit on Wednesday, Sexton said things have changed a ...