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People line up in front of an small gray farmhouse with white columns on stone pillars

Essex County Land Bank completes second home renovation, expands property search

By Tim Rowland

Housing officials celebrate $200K Lewis project while launching countywide search for more properties to renovate

Paddling through joy and grief on a stream beloved by the Hornbeck family

By Zachary Matson

Leigh Hornbeck reflects on parents' legacy following loss of mother to cancer. Minerva Stream paddle offers moment of respite and joy.

Original boathouse circa 1910

The Waldheim preserves classic Adirondack camp character over 5 generations

By Holly Riddle

Hospitality business operating just as it has for the last 121 years, passed parent-to-child the entire time

aerial view of whitney park

Talks progress on Whitney Park easement that could protect 32,000 Adirondack acres 

By James Odato

Talks underway on proposed agreement to preserve majority of property while allowing 4,500-acre resort

From left, Hamilton County IDA Executive Director Christy Wilt, Hamlets to Huts Executive Director Joe Dadey, local government leader Bill Farber, and ALT's Megan Stevenson at Griffin Gorge on the East Branch of the Sacandaga River in the town of Wells. Erika Bailey, courtesy Adirondack Land Trust

Adirondack Hamlets to Huts plans lodge in Wells

By Mike Lynch

The 18-acre land donation allows Adirondack Hamlets to Huts to move forward with pursuing a lodge

A sunrise view from the summit of Goodman Mountain on Friday, August 22. Photo by Carol MacKinnon

Once closed for a moose, Goodman Mountain trail is open again

By Mike Lynch

Goodman, one of the Tupper Lake Triad mountains, had been closed since early June.

Mount Colden trail: Lake Arnold route with High Peak views

By Contributing Writer

Experience stunning High Peak views on this challenging 12.6-mile trail from Adirondack Loj

A brown-capped chickadee with brown head, black neck and beak, white gray bust and light brown wings resting on a tree branch amid other tree brances with green in the distance background. Photo by Joan Collins

The ‘brown-capped’ chickadee 

By Contributing Writer

Sweet, social, curious, tame, bold and acrobatic are some of the many attributes that describe chickadees

Big Island fire. Photo courtesy of DEC

Campfires spark more Adirondack wildfires

By Adirondack Explorer

Plus: Overnight search finds missing hiker in Sawtooth range

David Goodman at the Goodman Mountain trailhead. Photo by Phil Brown

Goodman Mountain: A civil rights pioneer’s enduring legacy in the Adirondacks

By Tim Rowland

From family retreat to public trail: A mountain's transformation into a civil rights memorial

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