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Brandon Loomis

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Bob Stegemann

New trail opens for Columbus Day crowds

By Brandon Loomis

Cascade’s usual parking zone is closed through Monday, and shuttles are running hikers to that trail from the Olympic Sports Complex every half hour from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. The last return shuttle leaves the trail at 7 p.m.

Zoe Smith

Paul Smith’s hires Wildlife Conservation Society staffers

By Brandon Loomis

Zoe Smith, formerly the AWS program's director, is now deputy director at the college's Adirondack Watershed Institute. Former AWS science director Michale Glennon joins the institute and retains the same title there.

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Former AP president to lead Adirondack Explorer board

By Brandon Loomis

Tom Curley, a part-time Tupper Lake resident who retired from AP in 2012, replaces another retired news executive, Charlotte Hall, in leading the 17-member board.

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Conference eyes ADK climate change, adaptation

By Brandon Loomis

North Country Climate Reality plans to help Adirondack Park residents and local officials envision ways of adapting with a one-day conference in Silver Bay on Lake George next month.

Chuck Schumer at Bear Pond in the Adirondacks

Schumer: EPA ignores renewed acid rain threat

By Brandon Loomis

Federal inaction on Midwestern pollution controls represents a threat of returned acid rain deposition in the Adirondacks, according to Sen. Chuck Shchumer.

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Hold the salt: Experts say all have role in lake pollution

By Brandon Loomis

Lake Placid has three times more parking asphalt than state roadways, compounding salt pollution from snowplow operations.

Iowa Pacific removes more North Creek rail cars

By Brandon Loomis

  Protect the Adirondacks notes the removal of hopper rail cars from tracks along the Hudson River near North Creek, where they had sat for years. This is the second removal of stored freight cars from the Adirondack Park this year, after Iowa Pacific Holdings moved a string of oil tankers. Protect’s news release follows:…

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