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Thousands take to Van Ho to watch XC World Cup

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LAKE PLACID – American cross-country skier Gus Schumacher said the French team questioned whether this village would be a good spot to host a FIS Cross-Country World Cup, since there aren’t too many people who live here. Schumacher thought differently. And boy was he right. Mount Van ...

OWD proposed PILOT public hearing tonight in Tupper

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TUPPER LAKE — The Oval Wood Dish factory, a long-vacant behemoth of a building on Demars Boulevard, looms large over Tupper Lake. For the last several years, there has been much talk, considerable sums of grant money and community hope all put toward potentially redeveloping the currently ...

Wilmington board sets sights on affordable housing zoning changes

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WILMINGTON — On the heels of enacting changes intended to curtail large retail development and beef up screening requirements for commercial projects, the Wilmington Town Board is eyeing revisions to the zoning code once again. There is a public hearing on the proposed Local Law No. 2 of ...

DEC closes seasonal access roads due to ‘mud season’

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SARANAC LAKE — Two state Department of Environmental Conservation regions are closing snowmobile trails and mud gates to seasonal access roads on forest preserve, state forest and conservation easement lands due to spring thaw and muddy conditions. All gate closures were expected by Friday, ...

‘Here comes Diggins’ one last time

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LAKE PLACID – If bruised ribs during the Olympics didn’t slow American cross-country ski great Jessie Diggins down, nothing ever will. Well, except for one thing … herself. The most decorated American Olympic cross-country skier is set to call it a career this weekend at the FIS ...