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Amid inflation, high gas prices, Old Forge businesses hope for stellar summer

By Jamie Organski

Inflation concerns, worker shortages among top concerns impacting seasonal employers

Heaven Hill Farm

Digging up history

By Chloe Bennett

Students excavate 19th century farm field outside of Lake Placid

Stephen Raymond, a former environmental conservation officer in the Adirondacks, died from 9/11-related cancers. Photo courtesy of Shari Raymond

Legislature passes bill for 9/11 death benefits to Adirondack officer’s widow

By Gwendolyn Craig

By the time Shari Raymond discovered her husband's cancers were related to 9/11, her accidental death benefit application was too late.

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Help wanted, but not found, throughout the Adirondacks

By Tim Rowland

Private and public sector employers struggle to find employees.

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Santa Clara tables vote on marina plans

By Zachary Matson

Proposed marina expansions on Upper Saranac and Lower Saranac lakes have stirred up resistance from neighbors.

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Ensuring Adirondacks for all

By Gwendolyn Craig

Groups work to make sure everyone has access to the Adirondacks and outdoors excursions, despite concerns of "overuse"

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A history of baseball and the players who broke through barriers

By Tim Rowland

More than 40 years before Jackie Robinson broke the Major League color barrier, black baseball players in the Adirondacks were making headlines

APA seeks public comments on invasive species management changes

By Gwendolyn Craig

The APA is asking for the public's comments on proposed changes for invasive species management on DEC-owned lands in the Adirondacks.

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APA denies couple’s request to expand boathouse

By Gwendolyn Craig

Variance request for housing antique boat collection deemed ‘self-created difficulty’

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Inside the ‘green lobby’

By Contributing Writer

Memoir draws from three decades as an environmental powerbroker

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