JAY — Ward Lumber, a local lumber dealer for the North Country since 1890 and a Worker-Owned Cooperative since 2021, started 2024 with Bryan Mellick as its new CEO. Jay Ward’s service as CEO allowed the board to do a comprehensive national search for his replacement. “Bryan really ...
SARANAC LAKE — Put your records on and crank it up to 11! The theme for the 2025 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival is “Music Legends.” In a vote on Tuesday, the Carnival Committee faced the music and decided it’s time to pay homage to the artists who inspire generations, fill concert halls ...
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts recently announced its lineup of programming for the 2024 season, “Back in Blue, Act IV: The Magic BUILDS!” featuring a continuing return to the live music and theatre, along with new art-gallery exhibits, workshops and ...
NEW YORK — National Public Radio has suspended a veteran editor who wrote an outside essay criticizing his employer for, in his view, journalism that reflects a liberal viewpoint with little tolerance for contrary opinions. Uri Berliner, a senior editor on NPR’s business desk, was ...
ALBANY — The New York state Legislature’s bill drafting office was hit with an apparent cyberattack early Wednesday, officials said. The scope of the attack was not immediately clear but officials said the bill drafting system has been down since early Wednesday. The office is responsible ...
TUPPER LAKE — The Tupper Lake Central School District is set to lose 17 to 20 jobs in the coming school year. As district officials have put together their budget, which is up for a public vote on May 21, they saw that the district would need to cut $1.7 million in expenses to bring the ...