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Holly Riddle

Holly Riddle is a freelance lifestyle and business journalist who also dabbles in ghostwriting and fiction. You can find her work in publications ranging from Golf Magazine to Mashed, Global Traveler to Forbes and Bloomberg. When she’s not writing, you can find her exploring the mountains near her home in the Adirondacks.

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Adirondack Cuisine Trails gain ground

By Holly Riddle

There are six separate Adirondack Cuisine Trails, all featuring a range of businesses, from orchards to breweries, wineries to restaurants.

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5 ways to buy local flowers

By Holly Riddle

Adirondack flower farms bring unique additions to the region's agricultural landscape

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Say cheese

By Holly Riddle

After starting business from scratch, Nettle Meadow's cheese operations grow, gain recognition

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A pandemic pet boom

By Holly Riddle

The “pandemic pet boom” was a good thing for regional pet adoptions, but vet offices struggle to keep up.

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9 state sites for family-friendly winter fun

By Holly Riddle

Parks throughout the region offer cold-season recreation

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Winter magic, in ice

By Holly Riddle

Ice Castles attraction brings wintertime magic, new tourism opportunity to Lake George 

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Finding Timbuctoo

By Holly Riddle

How a nonprofit, archeologist and filmmaker came together to showcase a little-known Adirondack settlement

Clarence Jefferson Hall

Prisons expose gap in Adirondack history

By Holly Riddle

North Country native shines a light on the region’s relationship with prisons, and their invisible labor 

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A 46er family

By Holly Riddle

Three generations of hikers take their place among the High Peaks finishers

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A Different Kind of Hiking Buddy

By Holly Riddle

McKinley the Siberian, hiking cat joins owner on her journey to be Adirondack 46er

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