Gov. Kathy Hochul has made no secret of her goal to scale back state spending across agencies. But among some rural state lawmakers, her plan to save $77 million on prisons is driving backlash. The savings would come from Hochul’s proposal to close up to five correctional facilities in the ...
SARANAC LAKE — Petrova Elementary School’s fifth grade students participated an event styled after the TV game show “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?” on the 100th day of the school year this past Thursday. Participants included Jackson Williams, Braeden Curry, Thomas Gaylord, ...
KEENE VALLEY — The Keene Central School District Board of Education will hold a public hearing tonight on a resolution that, if approved, would grant qualifying volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers school tax relief. Under the proposed exemption, a qualifying volunteer firefighter ...
ELIZABETHTOWN — New York State Police charged Mary A. Longe, 80, of Elizabethtown with criminal obstruction of breathing, a misdemeanor, on Thursday. Troopers responded to the Essex Center nursing home at 10:45 p.m. on Wednesday to investigate a harassment complaint. Longe, a patient, ...
MALONE — County legislators passed a resolution, offered from the floor, urging Congress to continue funding an affordable broadband connectivity program beyond April 2024, at a meeting this past Thursday. Lindy Ellis, D–Saranac Lake, said the program has had a positive impact on families ...
The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by a senior church official, who called the mass a scandal within one of the preeminent houses of worship in U.S. Catholicism. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned the ...