ALBANY — The state recently announced over $29.4 million in grants to support water quality and climate resiliency projects in the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Region 5, which includes Essex and Franklin counties. The awards are part of more than $265 million in ...
LAKE PLACID — Adirondack Community Foundation has announced it is one of three recipients selected for The F. M. Kirby Foundation’s inaugural Innovation Engine Grant Program. ACF will receive an award of $300,000, distributed over three years, to advance its Safety Net initiative. The ...
LAKE PLACID — The United States men’s hockey team pulled off a “Miracle,” Thursday evening at the Olympic Center’s 1980 Herb Brooks Arena, defeating the mighty Soviet Union 4-3. Or so it looked ... in fact, nobody was even on the ice. Three of the 17 living 1980 Olympians — ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...