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Local food access slow to reach full potential
Local food access slow to reach full potential
Farmers markets gain ground in offering SNAP access, but participation rate remains low
Salt reduction panel previews final report
Draft recommendations include improved tracking, new water quality standards, pilot studies 
‘Long-time coming:’ DEC puts call out for consultants to help form High Peaks visitor management strategy
Bids sought on determining ‘carrying capacity’ on select forest preserve lands
Family spearheads Fulton Chain cleanup
Second annual Maintain the Chain event invites all to pitch in during Adirondack Water Week
Advocates urge action for Adirondack Rail Trail
ARTA plans to hire executive director; OSI applies for grant for trailhead development
Scaling Little Peaks: Keene breaks ground on new daycare center
Little Peaks’s expansive new child care center aims to help meet the needs of local families
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Summer outreach tour: coming to a Stewart’s Shop near you!
Summer outreach tour: coming to a Stewart’s Shop near you!
We are launching an “Adirondack Listening Tour” at Stewart’s Shops across the Adirondacks beginning June 22 and we hope you’ll join us.

Recreation

A good luck hike
A good luck hike
Pair of trails offer nice escape
Riding like a stage coach
Riding like a stage coach
A scenic bike ride on the Carriage Road in the...
Mountain club moves Lake George office down the road
Mountain club moves Lake George office down the road
On Monday, the nonprofit hiking club finalized a pair of...
A walk through a ‘working’ forest
A walk through a ‘working’ forest
New West Valley Trail in Lewis gives glimpse into past...

Adirondackers

Like father, like son
Like father, like son
Career at Kodak inspired Gardners’ generational love of black and white photography
Adirondack skies missing Long Lake legend
Thomas Helms, a pilot, professor and fixture of life in the Adirondack Mountains, died last month at 76. His pontoon boats on...
Adirondack trail work is in his DNA
Tony Goodwin looks back on seven decades blazing literal trails throughout the park
ASK A SCIENTIST: A special handler of hummingbirds
Ted Hicks, who is the Crown Point Bird Banding Station Coordindator, bands hummingbirds from May to August.

Featured Stories

Producing for paddlers and people
Producing for paddlers and people
Essex Industries turns out lightweight canoes, prideful workers
A new giant tree found near Bolton
A new giant tree found near Bolton
Believed to be New York’s tallest measured tree,...
Digging up history
Digging up history
Students excavate 19th century farm field outside of...
Tupper Lake marina added to assets of wealthy investor
Tupper Lake marina added to assets of wealthy...
Stanley Rumbough now has multiple lakefront properties
Word of Life Lodge center of a $21 million project
Word of Life Lodge center of a $21...
Developers plan family destination in Schroon Lake
Benita Law-Diao tapped to be APA’s first Black board member
Benita Law-Diao tapped to be APA’s first Black...
Hochul’s nomination awaits official confirmation

Continuing coverage

Climate Change

What if you could gaze into the future of climate change?
What if you could gaze into the future of climate...

High Peaks Usage

Hiker shuttles starting to run in the High Peaks
Hiker shuttles starting to run in the High Peaks

Adirondack Park Agency

APA denies couple’s request to expand boathouse
APA denies couple’s request to expand boathouse

Invasive Species

Future-proofing our landscape
Future-proofing our landscape

Community News

Producing for paddlers and people
Producing for paddlers and people

Water Quality

Santa Clara tables vote on marina plans
Santa Clara tables vote on marina plans

Opinion

Cathead amendment: The time is now
Cathead amendment: The time is now
Policies needed to secure access for all
A path to common sense
Canal lock needs to be closed to prevent...
In search of a safe place

Book Reviews

‘Forests Adrift’
‘Forests Adrift’
‘Iron Sharpens Iron’
‘The Power Line’
‘Camper Girl’
‘Hiking the Trail to Yesterday, vol. II’

Food and Farms

Fighting food insecurity with CSA shares
Fighting food insecurity with CSA shares
5 ways to buy local flowers
Say cheese
Spinning compost into gold
Stonyfield comes to aid of organic dairy farmers

Video

46ers women’s trail work weekend
46ers women’s trail work weekend
Straight talk about High Peaks use
Straight talk about High...
Inside a turtle hospital
Inside a turtle hospital
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