President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times. Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only president in modern times not to make ...
ALBANY — More than 1,000 New Yorkers tested positive for COVID-19 in a single day, marking the first time since June 5 the state has seen a daily number that high. The number of positive tests reported daily in the state has been steadily inching up in recent weeks, a trend possibly ...
The start of this fall’s school year has been the strangest on record, thanks to COVID-19 and the implementation of hybrid learning models. Going back to school has meant friends and backpacks, but also masks, temperature checks, half-filled school buses, painted 6-foot-apart dots and ...
In response to the Black Brook Town Council’s decision to keep the name of one of the town’s hamlets, Swastika, a state senator has said he plans to introduce legislation that would prohibit the use of the name. State Sen. James Skoufis, a Democrat from Cornwall in Orange County, said ...
ELIZABETHTOWN — Two more residents of the Essex Center nursing home and rehabilitation facility have died after contracting COVID-19. Altogether, 13 people connected to the COVID-19 outbreak at Essex Center have died since the facility saw its first confirmed cases of the illness on ...
VERMONTVILLE — A Saranac man has been sentenced to 60 days in Franklin County Jail, fined $5,525 and had his hunting privileges revoked for five years following charges that he illegally poached a moose in the town of Franklin in October 2019. The state Department of Environmental ...
SARANAC LAKE — If you’re feeling down on a rainy day, heading outside might bring an uplifting message — poems on downtown sidewalks that only appear when wet. The Adirondack Center for Writing and the village of Saranac Lake Arts and Culture Advisory Board teamed up on the Raining ...
As Franklin County officials had predicted, the county remains on the state’s list of communities “susceptible to fiscal stress,” but it is close to having that designation removed. While the county’s numbers are improving, the town of Moira found itself added to the list for the ...
SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake Kiwanis Club is trying to win $25,000 to upgrade Ampersand Park’s playground equipment, but it requires people to vote for the local project by noon Sunday. This local club has entered Ampersand Park in Kiwanis International’s Legacy of Play contest, ...
LAKE PLACID — Most known short-term vacation rental owners in Lake Placid have now registered for a permit. As of Friday, the village-town Building and Planning Department had received 436 applications for permits to operate a short-term vacation rental, according to Code Enforcement ...
LAKE PLACID — A bidder has not yet been selected for Lake Placid’s Main Street overhaul. The village has chosen to extend the deadline for contractors to submit bids for the multi-year, $8 million Main Street redesign and infrastructure upgrade project. The new deadline for bids is ...
LAKE PLACID — Local officials are looking at purchasing new equipment to help curb speeding on village streets — an electric sign that warns drivers how fast they’re going. Mayor Craig Randall brought up the proposal during the regular village board meeting on Monday. He said ...
TUPPER LAKE — A third teen has been charged charged with stealing a pickup truck in Tupper Lake by village police. The 14-year-old from Tupper Lake was charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, a felony, Friday, the same charge two 15-year-olds were charged with Thursday. While the two ...
If you spent the summer dreaming of buttered popcorn and waiting for Christopher Nolan’s latest movie to open, you’re going to have longer to wait, at least in the North Country. Last week Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York will continue to hold off reopening plans for movie theaters. ...
All public and private school districts and colleges in the Tri-Lakes region are reporting zero cases of COVID-19, according to a COVID-19 Report Card dashboard unveiled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo early this month. Cuomo encouraged parents to view the dashboard at ...
SARANAC LAKE — Following two years of work and political action by the village’s Climate Smart Community Task Force and local high school students, this village received its bronze-level Climate Smart Community certification on Thursday. Saranac Lake’s task force began work in May ...
By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY — Health inspectors found safety shortcomings at 77 New York nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, including basic infection-control violations like failing to have staff wear masks or wash their hands, according to records and ...
TUPPER LAKE — Two 15-year-olds have been charged with stealing a pickup truck in Tupper Lake and crashing it in Malone. Neither teen was hurt. On Wednesday State Police charged the two, both from Tupper Lake, with one count each of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, ...
