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Ticonderoga solar

Ticonderoga adds 100-acre solar installation to growing project list

By Gwendolyn Craig

APA approves 20 MW solar project amid planning discussion

APA office

APA virtual meeting to include live, public comment

By Gwendolyn Craig

The APA's virtual board meeting will now include live, public comment for the first time in about 18 months of remote meetings.

solar

Power struggle

By Gwendolyn Craig

As solar farms rise, Adirondack Park towns weigh clean energy, views, land use issues.

Remembering an Adirondack legend

By Tim Rowland

Richard Persico led the Adirondack Park Agency through its tumultuous early years

white lake quarry sign

As White Lake quarry application moves forward, opposition grows

By Megan Plete Postol

More than 1,000 letters to date, community members, consultants speak out at public hearing

The Brampton

State seeks $420,000 penalty from former Hudson River retreat partner

By Gwendolyn Craig

The matter stems back to multiple structures Jeffrey Lee and property owner James John McDonald illegally built in the Town of Thurman.

lower saranac lake marina

Former DEC commissioner appeals judge’s marina decision

By Gwendolyn Craig

Thomas Jorling is appealing a state Supreme Court decision dismissing his lawsuit against a marina project on Lower Saranac Lake.

George Carrothers

Long Lake business owner: Public access to causeway to remain in place

By Tim Rowland

George Carrothers says he will not fight an Adirondack Park Agency directive to tear out a lakeside deck at his bake shop.

White Lake

DEC to hold Sept. 2 public hearing on proposed White Lake quarry project

By Megan Plete Postol

Independent consultant deems application 'insufficient'

Clarence Petty helps a legislative fact-finding team make dinner over a campfire in 1961.

‘A Wild Idea’

By Adirondack Explorer

Book tells the story of the at-times contentious campaign to create the Adirondack Park Agency

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