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Thoughts on civic engagement

Boy, am I exhausted. Like most parents of young children, I work a full-time job in addition to parenting, and like most North Country residents, I also have two additional part-time jobs. When my family moved to the North Country in 2021, we felt strongly about moving into the Saranac Lake ...

Storm girls Nordic sits in first place

The Saranac Lake girls Nordic ski team currently sits in first place following Monday morning’s opening day of the NYSPHSAA Skiing Championship at the Bristol Mountain Ski Resort. The Red Storm girls had five skiers place inside the top-15 of the 7.5-kilometer individual skate event to ...

Olympic blueprint

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Imagine: A sprawling world-class city and a small mountain village with a rich Olympic history, separated by about five or six hours, collaborate and play host to a truly dual-host Winter Games. Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo pulled it off. And some wonder ...

Update: State Police release name, cause of death for Mount Marcy hiker

KEENE — State Police released the name and cause of death of the person who died while hiking Mount Marcy on Thursday. Brianna L. Mohr, 21, of Brick, New Jersey, was found near Mount Marcy’s summit Thursday night by state Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers and ...

Hiker dies on Mount Marcy

KEENE — A hiker died near the summit of Mount Marcy on Thursday, after calling 911 that afternoon to report they had slipped there. The state Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed Sunday evening that a 21-year-old hiker from New Jersey was found dead near the mountain’s ...

US finishes 5th in luge’s Olympic finale

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Germany, Austria, Italy. They were the three best luge nations at the Milan Cortina Olympics, and very fittingly, they were the three best teams in the team relay on Thursday night. Germany is now 4-for-4 in the team event in the Olympic program, winning yet ...