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Plattsburgh man arrested for hate crime following Sunday incident
Local News
PLATTSBURGH — What was supposed to just be a fishing trip turned into an incident of racial harassment this past Sunday. Plattsburgh resident Athina Mitchell, 22, was driving to a fishing spot that she and her partner, Charles Wilkinson, had heard about at the end of Brown Road in the ...
Stefanik given ‘Spirit of Enterprise’ Award by U.S. Chamber
Local News
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday the U.S. Chamber of Commerce presented northern New York’s congressional representative Elise Stefanik with its annual “Spirit of Enterprise” award. The “Spirit of Enterprise” award is given in recognition of members of Congress who support a pro-growth ...
Chipmunk, ahoy!
Outdoors
Benny Mardones, singer of hit song ‘Into the Night,’ Vietnam vet, dies at 73
Weekender A&E
Benny Mardones, 73, singer of the hit “Into the Night,” died Monday, June 29, his friend and record producer Joel Diamond announced. Mardones, a Vietnam veteran, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2000. “Life has a beginning and an end for all of us,” Diamond said in ...
NYC mayor unveils plan to reopen schools in fall; Cuomo: not so fast
Coronavirus
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a hybrid back-to-school plan Wednesday with most students inside their physical schools just two or three days a week, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it’s up to him to decide whether schools can open at all. De Blasio said his plan ...
Diversity leader moving out of Saranac Lake
Local News
SARANAC LAKE — The director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative is packing her belongings and moving out of this village, saying she hasn’t felt safe living here as a Black person since racist graffiti was found spray-painted on a railroad bridge a week-and-a-half ago. The other ...
One inmate at Adirondack Correctional has COVID-19, is asymptomatic
Local News
RAY BROOK — The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has confirmed that one inmate at Adirondack Correctional Facility has tested positive for COVID-19. According to DOCCS spokesman Thomas Mailey, this man is asymptomatic and has been isolated, and anyone who has ...
Protestors rally for older inmates’ release from Adirondack facility
Local News
RAY BROOK — More than 30 activists stood Monday at the corner of state Route 86 and Ray Brook Road, calling on New York state to release the nearly 100 older inmates recently moved to the nearby Adirondack Correctional Facility. Standing below the “Adirondack C.F.” sign a mile from ...
Lake Placid board adopts budget with flat tax levy
Local News
LAKE PLACID — The village Board of Trustees adopted a budget for 2020-21 last week that carries a slight tax decrease. The village initially proposed a preliminary budget that carried a slight tax increase, with the municipality planning to levy, or collect, $3,923,351 from village ...
Rangers have a busy work week, rescuing hikers
Outdoors
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide. Among the calls answered in the past week were the following: --- Town of Keene --- Wilderness Rescue: On June 30 at 7:48 p.m., DEC’s Ray Brook Dispatch ...
Police are investigating Keene farmstand robbery
Local News
KEENE — A Keene farm was robbed on Sunday. New York State Police are investigating and no one has yet been charged in connection with the case. Police say a man entered the Black Rooster Maple farmstand on state Route 73 Sunday morning and made off with $250 in cash and a bottle of ...
NY requires visitors from 3 more states to quarantine 14 days
Local News
ALBANY (AP) — New York is now requiring people from three additional states to quarantine for 14 days as more individuals are testing positive for COVID-19 nationwide. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a Tuesday press release that Delaware, Kansas and Oklahoma now join a total of 19 states that ...
Stefanik, fellow reps call for plan to reopen the border
Local News
WASHINGTON — North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, and fellow representatives are pushing for the United States and Canada to develop guidance for a phased reopening of the border. “We are asking that the United States and Canada immediately craft a ...
Cuomo admin report defends nursing home rules for the pandemic
Local News
ALBANY — The Cuomo administration concluded in a report issued Monday that while more than 300 nursing homes statewide took in coronavirus-positive patients during the pandemic, the employees of the facilities were the main conduit for the virus into the homes. Gov. Andrew Cuomo ...
Firework accident leads to Mooers house fire on July 4
Local News
MOOERS — A Fourth of July fireworks mishap here led to a house fire on Independence Day and ended in a total loss. “One of the fireworks tipped over and blew into the garage,” Second Assistant Fire Chief Ben Lapham told the Press-Republican. “That’s where it started. “It ...
When it comes to COVID-19, Hanks takes it day by day
Weekender A&E
NEW YORK (AP) — Since contracting COVID-19 in March, Tom Hanks has been, by most measures, busy. He and his wife, Rita Wilson, flew home after recuperating in Australia, where he had been shooting Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley film. He hosted a from-home episode of “Saturday Night ...
Mary Trump’s book offers scathing portrayal of president
Politics
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s niece offers a scathing portrayal of her uncle in a new book obtained by The Associated Press Tuesday that blames a toxic family for raising a narcissistic, damaged man who poses an immediate danger to the public. Mary L. Trump, a psychologist, ...
Frederick Douglass speech read at John Brown Farm
Local News
LAKE PLACID — The words of Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” echoed off the walls of Corinthian Hall in Rochester on July 5, 1852. On Sunday they echoed amid the Adirondack High Peaks at the farm and grave of another famous ...
DEC: Bear euthanized after repeated ‘aggressive behavior’
Local News
LAKE PLACID — State Department of Environmental Conservation staff killed a black bear on Monday following what the department described as “a documented escalation of the bear’s aggressive behavior since 2018.” Campsites and lean-tos in the Lake Colden area of the High Peaks ...