WILMINGTON — Today marks the start of the ski season at Whiteface Mountain. The first chair lift disembarks at 8:30 a.m., according to a news release from the state Olympic Regional Development Authority, which manages the mountain alongside several other sports venues, including the Gore ...
After 10 years, the issue of whether a paddler can pass through a stretch of private waterway is over after he and a state agency declined to appeal a previous ruling on the matter. For the past decade, Phil Brown of Saranac Lake, former Adirondack Explorer editor, and the Brandreth Park ...
PLATTSBURGH - Following the first public hearing in the House impeachment inquiry, North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, like her Republican colleagues, argued that witnesses put forth hearsay testimony and that no crime was actually committed by President Donald Trump. Deputy ...
SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Diversity Initiative has hired its first director. The Adirondack North Country Association announced this week that Nicole Hylton-Patterson of the Bronx will take on the leadership position for the Initiative, which aims to make the Adirondack region a more ...
PLATTSBURGH - North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik called ABC News political analyst Michael Dowd’s comments about her disgusting, sexist and shameful. In a tweet Wednesday that has since been deleted, Dowd wrote, “Elise Stefanik is a perfect example of why just electing someone ...
BOSSIER CITY, La. — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the impeachment probe has been “very hard” on his family, even as he tried flex his political muscle to flip the governor’s mansion in deep-red Louisiana. Speaking in friendly territory in a state he carried in 2016 by ...
The state departments of Transportation and Environmental Conservation released a draft unit management plan amendment for the Remsen-Lake Placid Travel Corridor Tuesday evening. As with an earlier version, the proposed amendment calls for train tracks along a 34-mile stretch between Tupper ...
North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik took an active role in the process as the first open hearing of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry started Wednesday morning. Moments after the first two witnesses were sworn in, Stefanik, a member of the committee, asked two ...
SARANAC LAKE — Jan Cannon-Ladhams bought two cups of tea: one for herself and one for her lifelong friend Susan Steen. Cannon-Ladhams put milk and sugar in hers — the Australian way — and Steen kept her tea black — the American way. Steen and Cannon-Ladhams met as little girls, ...
LAKE PLACID — Chivalry is not dead. You just have to time travel to find it. Local children will perform “King Artie and the Knights of the Rad Table” tonight, Friday and Saturday at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, presented by Rising Star Productions. The comedic musical ...
Kale has become our “it” green, gaining popularity over the last decade. Once relatively unknown outside the south, today restaurants make sure it is on the menu. Everyone loves kale chips. Kale has the buzz. But collard greens — kale’s first cousin — are still uncommon. Standard ...
TUPPER LAKE — Get ready for a night of comedy and classic rock ‘n’ roll. The Tupper Lake Red and Black Players will host a double bill of “The Fourth Wall” from the high schoolers and “All Shook Up” from the middle schoolers Friday and Saturday nights. - “The Fourth ...
I’m so excited for the snow. It’s not that in the past I’ve not enjoyed it, but sometimes the snowy weather really needs to stay in its own lane. I need to finish the yard work and remember where I left the garden tools. Don’t worry. I’m constantly reprimanded by family members that ...
The film industry isn’t just recycling movie plots. The next unoriginal step is recycling actors...who have been dead for 64 years. Despite being in only three movies (he played very bit parts in a few others, but I’m not counting those), James Dean has been considered one of the best ...
WASHINGTON (AP) —What hearings? What phone call? Professing disinterest and disdain, President Donald Trump said he was “too busy” doing the people’s business Wednesday to watch the impeachment hearings that imperil his presidency. But even as Trump tried to suggest that he was ...
“Twisted Twenty-Six,” Putnam, by Janet Evanovich Edna Mazur, Stephanie’s eccentric grandmother, marries a gangster named Jimmy Rosolli, but becomes a widow less than an hour later when he keels over from a heart attack. His associates and exes immediately come out of the woodwork ...
SARANAC — In the beginning, J. Kellum Smith and Angela Brown sang in the choir at the Saranac United Methodist Church. “We thought the acoustics of the church were so lovely, and the space was very beautiful,” said Brown, who co-founded Hill and Hollow Music with her late husband in ...
For many of us who love to cook and host on Thanksgiving, one central mystery remains: What to pour? Before I turn to the experts, I’ll offer up three things I do know about wine on this holiday: 1. You don’t want to run out. 2. Opinions vary on what tastes delicious. 3. Do ...
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer Cops might do well to position their speed traps near movie theaters wherever the new film “Ford v Ferrari” is playing. They might fund their whole year’s budget busting speeders peeling out of the parking lots. This infectious and ...
NEW YORK —Disney is sprinkling its pixie dust on the streaming arena this week, as its Disney Plus service debuts with an arsenal of marquee franchises including Marvel and Star Wars, original series with a built-in fan base and a cheap price to boot. The $7-a-month commercial-free ...