SARANAC LAKE — A pillar of Saranac Lake’s arts community is closing its doors after 25 years of being a home for all things artistic, with a bend toward the unique. The BluSeed Studios arts center has been in a “dire” financial situation for a while now, Executive Director Marissa ...
LAKE PLACID — Julia Goren knows a thing or two about Adirondack trails. She spent nearly 20 years with the Adirondack Mountain Club, most recently serving as its interim executive director. On Monday, she will begin a new chapter — serving as the Adirondack Rail Trail Association’s ...
RAQUETTE LAKE — A former caretaker at the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Tioga Point campground in Raquette Lake was sentenced to seven years in prison last week for distribution of child sexual abuse material. Kaziah M. White, 33, pleaded guilty in December to the ...
ALBANY — For decades, a carveout in New York’s child labor laws allowed kids as young as 11 to legally partake in the time-honored tradition of a paper route. Flipping papers into suburban hedges, bicycling through snow squalls, dodging dogs and getting stiffed for tips became a rite of ...
NEW YORK — New York University said it would deny a diploma to a student who used a graduation speech to condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinians and what he described as U.S. “complicity in this genocide.” Logan Rozos’s speech Wednesday for graduating students of NYU’s Gallatin ...
PAUL SMITHS — On Saturday, 181 Smitties graduated from Paul Smith’s College on the Great Lawn along the shores of Lower St. Regis Lake. This was the largest PSC class since 2019. Graduates in the college’s 27 associate, bachelor’s and master’s programs hailed from 23 states, the ...