ALBANY — Parks & Trails New York (PTNY) Saturday joined Assemblymember Patricia Fahy to praise Governor Andrew Cuomo for signing legislation, directing the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to develop a coordinated plan for linking existing trails with potential ...
SARANAC LAKE — Head lice is not just something to scratch your head over. It’s a common problem in schools and doctors’ offices across the country. Understanding that one in five children will get lice, the Saranac Lake Voluntary Health Association has created an infographic outlining ...
PAUL SMITHS — Stephanie Tyski has a competitive desire that for a long time she could not satiate. She used to play volleyball, but after suffering a serious concussion, sports were a no-go. She spent the rest of her high school career and some of her college years missing that sense of ...
With Fox News appearances and worldwide trending hashtags, each candidate in New York’s 21st Congressional District is now receiving unprecedented amounts of attention and cash. Nationwide fundraising drives are dumping millions of dollars into the campaigns of Rep. Elise Stefanik and ...
It was a cold, rainy mid-November night 50 years ago, and state Forest Ranger George Stec was talking to three young men who stopped by his house to report seeing a wolf around Queensbury’s Butler Pond when the phone rang. It was around 8:30 p.m. “It was the Sheriff’s Department ...
LAKE PLACID — The Cloudsplitter gondola is getting a facelift. The state Olympic Regional Development Authority’s Board of Directors on Friday authorized a more than $2.4 million contract with Doppelmayr USA to overhaul the system at Whiteface Mountain Ski Center in ...
SARANAC LAKE — Dale Breault Jr. plans to spend his first several months as superintendent of the Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES listening. “Getting to know the operation and listening and learning,” Breault said at Thursday night’s BOCES board meeting. “I plan to find out about ...
ELIZABETHTOWN — Elizabethtown Community Hospital, part of the University of Vermont Health Network, has been named a 2019 Guardian of Excellence Award winner by Press Ganey. The award recognizes top-performing health care organizations that have achieved the 95th percentile or above of ...
PLATTSBURGH — Howie Hawkins wants to get what he calls life and death issues injected into the 2020 presidential campaign discourse: the climate emergency, the inequality crisis and the nuclear arms race. The Syracuse resident currently seeking the Green Party presidential nomination ...
MALONE — In less than two months, the Criminal Justice Reform Act will take effect, bringing with it sweeping changes to the bail reform system. “Now 90% of the criminal offenses, there will not be bail for them,” said Franklin County Judge Derek P. Champagne. Alongside Sheriff ...
MALONE — This Thanksgiving weekend, millions will hit the roads eager to spend time with family and friends. In New York state, police officers will ramp up patrols to crack down on drunk drivers. This holiday is among the busiest travel times of the year. More people on the roadways ...
ALBANY — New York State Department of Motor Vehicles wants to remind New Yorkers that snowmobile registrations must be renewed annually. The DMV allows snowmobilers to renew registrations online on the DMV website, by mail or in person at a DMV office, according to a press ...
Parents of toddlers and preschoolers often ask me if it is all right for their child to be speaking to imaginary friends. I won’t usually answer until Dr. Check-Up, my imaginary pediatrician friend, gives me the advice I need to answer their question. Fortunately, he has, so here are my ...
With Fox News appearances and worldwide trending hashtags, each candidate in New York’s 21st Congressional District is now receiving unprecedented amounts of attention and cash. Nationwide fundraising drives are dumping millions of dollars into the campaigns of Rep. Elise Stefanik and ...
KEENE VALLEY — For the first time in months, the Garden parking lot was empty on Wednesday. Hikers continued to trickle into the hamlet of Keene Valley past Columbus Day, but as the temperature dipped this week, so did the steady stream of tourists to this trailhead pinch point. With ...
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik was on Fox News Thursday night with Sean Hannity and House Republican Whip Steve Scalise to talk about the impeachment hearings she has been a part of, saying the process has been unfair but that the Democrats’ case is “crumbling,” and to ask for donations in her ...
In Thursday’s public impeachment inquiry hearing, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik addressed witnesses statements that her committee members were sharing “harmful” theories and received sympathy from committee members and witnesses for social media attacks. --- Russian or Ukrainian ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former White House official said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s top European envoy was sent on a “domestic political errand” seeking investigations of Democrats, stunning testimony that dismantled a main line of the president’s defense in the ...
SARANAC LAKE — Local former stunt woman Leslie Hoffman recently won a court case dealing with her on-going fight for a disability pension from the Screen Actors Guild, but she said it’s not a total victory. At the end of October, U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner ruled in favor of ...
