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A high-tech approach to telling stories

By Tim Rowland

Warren County oral history project uses new tools to tell old Adirondack tales

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Adirondack Council’s executive director to step down in September

By Gwendolyn Craig

Adirondack Council Executive Director Willie Janeway will step down from his post on Sept. 15, after more than a decade.

A crowd of people with an older man and a red-headed man in the foreground, both wearing black jackets.

For Lake George mayor, a long career dedicated to lake protection

By Contributing Writer

Robert Blais is believed to be the country's longest-serving mayor. He's retiring at the end of March after 52 years in office

A snow-covered field in old forge could be the site of a future housing project

Proposed housing project divides Old Forge community

By Jamie Organski

Webb Town Board withdraws support of People First project, ahead of scheduled informational meetings.

Jon Close, a farmer from Mayfield with a long beard and wearing a purple sweatshirt, stands outside the Mayfield Fire House.

Mayfield farmer is betting on solar

By Gwendolyn Craig

A Fulton County dairy farmer is hoping to keep his business afloat with the addition of a 40-megawatt solar array.

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Panel: State should move ahead on redeveloping former Adirondack prison buildings

By Tim Rowland

Reuse should be mindful of the past, advocates say

Arthur Perryman,is leading the push for changes to ranger retirement

Ranger’s suicide cited in making case for retirement bill

By Gwendolyn Craig

The union representative for forest rangers used his colleague’s death by suicide as an example of why lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul should pass a 20-year retirement bill.

Basil Seggos, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, testifies during a joint budget hearing on Feb. 14 in the New York State Capitol in Albany.

Environmental Protection Fund gets scrutiny in budget hearings

By Gwendolyn Craig

Adirondack groups want designated funding restored in the state budget. DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos provided input.

A map shows plans for Boralex's Foothills Solar Farm, 40-megawatt project located in the Town of Mayfield, in Fulton County. Map courtesy of Boralex meeting materials

Public invited to discuss 40-megawatt Mayfield solar project 

By Gwendolyn Craig

Solar developer Boralex Inc. is proposing a project more than two times the size of the largest solar facility approved thus far in the Adirondack Park

The sun sets over Eagle Lake near Ticonderoga in the Adirondacks.

DEC to close Eagle Lake boat trailer access in 2024

By Gwendolyn Craig

The DEC will reconfigure a public boat launch at Eagle Lake in the Town of Ticonderoga so it no longer may accommodate trailered boats.

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