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DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos announces the opening of the rail trail between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid. Photo by Mike Lynch

Key stretch of Adirondack Rail Trail is complete

By Mike Lynch

Several dozen people gathered Friday afternoon in North Elba to celebrate the official opening.

High Rock on the Oswegatchie

High Rock on the Oswegatchie River 

By William Hill

Fond memories of an annual fall outing

One of the distillery buildings at Whistle Pig in Mineville, with a new building behind it. It appears that the bottom of the building has been cleaned.

A new Adirondack growth: Whiskey fungus

By Gwendolyn Craig

As distilling business expands, so does black sheen on Mineville buildings

Hickory Hill

Hickory Ski Center faces deadline to fund ski lifts

By Times Union

Historic, challenging ski hill has been open to uphill skiers but wants to revive lifts

downtown tupper lake

Tupper Lake’s water woes

By Zachary Matson

After move from lake to well water, Tupper Lake looks to switch back

costumed characters at santa's workshop

Santa’s Workshop: 75 years of magic

By Tom French

Nostalgia at the heart of one of the country's oldest theme parks

Brian McCormack and Melanie Sawyer in front of their pole-mounted tracking solar panels

Off-grid in the Adirondacks

By Gwendolyn Craig

The off-gridders offer lessons on an alternative lifestyle amid the state’s goal of transitioning to more renewable energy.

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Following merger, Boquet Valley school communities look to the future

By Tim Rowland

After years of splitting district between Westport and Elizabethtown, residents will vote on whether to create a new building in Lewis.

Broc and Jennifer Jennings, of ADK Solar, walking on their property in Saranac

Tips for planning an off-grid system

By Gwendolyn Craig

Tips and tricks from two renewable energy developers on planning for an off-grid home in the Adirondack Park.

sign on a library door

Tempers lost at Adirondack library meeting

By Times Union

It's the latest controversy involving the public library, which remains closed after staff abruptly quit two months ago, citing harassment following some outcry over a drag story hour.

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