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Need some help making rent?

Local News

SARANAC LAKE — A local housing group will be starting up the “Franklin County Rental Assistance Fund” to help low- to middle-class renters with their monthly housing bills. Adirondack Housing Development Corporation CEO Patrick Murphy said the nonprofit recently got a $1.25 million ...

A school, a vote and an ‘uncomfortable predicament’

Local News

BLOOMINGDALE — Three nights in a row this week, the Saranac Lake Central School District Board of Education spoke about the potential closure of Bloomingdale Elementary School — twice with members of the public at hearings which covered a wide range of topics and then amongst ...

Toboggan chute opens for season

Local News

LAKE PLACID — One of the community’s most iconic winter staples, the Lake Placid Toboggan Chute, is set to open for the season today. It’s scheduled to open from noon to 4 p.m., then again from 7 to 9 p.m. The toboggan chute will have the same hours of operation for Sunday and will ...

Herb Brooks statue set to be unveiled in Lake Placid

Local News

LAKE PLACID — The legend of the late hockey coach Herb Brooks continues to reverberate some four-and-a-half decades after his young, upstart United States squad shocked the world by defeating the Soviet Union in the Lake Placid Olympic Winter Games. The victory was punctuated two days later ...

On energy and climate, Hochul goes nuclear

New York news

If 2025 was the year Gov. Kathy Hochul embraced “abundance” as the solution to New York’s woes — above all, the rising cost of living — 2026 is her year to show that she was just getting started. That is, at least, what Hochul vowed in her State of the State address on Tuesday, ...

Hochul on New York’s fraying safety net

New York news

In her annual State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul had little to say about what’s in store for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers at risk of losing their public benefits this year. “While Washington takes a machete to our safety net, I’m doubling down on the ...