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LAKE PLACID — The 1980 “Miracle on Ice” U.S. men’s hockey team is one step closer to another, even rarer, gold medal. “The Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act” passed the Senate on Tuesday. It will be sent back to the House of Representatives with a small amendment before ...

Reduced police, immigration resolution passes

Local News

SARANAC LAKE — For months, the village board has debated a resolution which would keep local police from being used to enforce federal immigration law or to question or arrest someone based solely on their immigration status. On Monday, an altered version of that bill — one with fewer ...

Rangers help lost hikers, contain several fires

Local News

Forest rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation responded to several wildfires throughout the Adirondacks this week, one of which was determined to have been caused by a lighting strike, another spread from a structure fire and another’s cause was not stated. All ...

Lake Flower Landing announces fall concert series

Local News

SARANAC LAKE — Lake Flower Landing recently received an arts grant award from the 2025 Statewide Community Regrant program to support continuing weekly drawing sessions and a fall concert series. At their studio gallery, Lake Flower Landing, Peter Seward and Ren Davidson Seward host film ...

Potsdam getting ready to start DRI project construction

Local News

POTSDAM — Construction is set to begin on Potsdam’s long-awaited Downtown Revitalization Initiative streetscape and riverwalk projects, the village has announced. Initial work will start this fall on Raymond Street and the Sandstone Art Walk, with Market Street and Maple Street ...

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot in Utah

Politics

OREM, Utah — Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in an act that drew renewed attention to the threat of political violence across the United States. The death was announced on social media by ...