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Our representative in Congress, Elise Stefanik, is among the Republican women whose careers have received a boost from their association with Donald Trump – an unapologetic misogynist.  As the political historian Leandra Zarnow writes ... Read More

Brian Mann arrived in Saranac Lake roughly twenty-five years ago to open North Country Public Radio’s Adirondack bureau. Since then, he’s come to be regarded as one of the state’s most talented journalists – an assessment affirmed by National ... Read More

Many hike and hunt in the Adirondacks. Only a few volunteer their time and skills to search for those who lose their way in the 6 million acre park. When a hunter from Tupper Lake went missing in St. Lawrence County in November, members of Adirondack ... Read More

Its evocative place-based name notwithstanding, there is nothing narrowly regional – that is, parochial –  about the Adirondack Theatre Festival. “The Adirondack Theatre Festival has a history, not only of participating in ... Read More

If you never met Jon Cody, this memoir by Christopher Shaw will make you wish you had. Or perhaps not. A skilled craftsman and enterprising retailer and antique trader, Cody was also a drug dealer, an arsonist, a gunslinger, a rake.  He ... Read More

Pete Seeger, who died in 2014 at the age of 94 and whose music inspirited popular crusades for civil, labor and women’s rights, environmental conservation and peace, would, by any definition, be considered a public citizen. As it ... Read More

Food Network’s “Summer Rush” followed the Foys, the Bolton Landing family that owns three distinctly different restaurants, through a busy, pre-pandemic summer season.  That 2020 reality show now has a successor. Foy Rush, ... Read More

Hudson Headwaters Health Network has been awarded a $1.5 million grant to renovate one of its 21 local health centers.   The American Rescue Plan, signed into law in March,  included funds for “major health care construction and ... Read More

Music teachers from across the Adirondacks assembled at Ticonderoga High School over the course of two October weekends to hone their skills in repairing and maintaining brass and woodwind instruments, courtesy of an expanding Beinstrumental ... Read More

The Lake George Land Conservancy, the Bolton Landing Chamber of Commerce  and the Town of Bolton celebrated the expanded and improved Pinnacle Preserve with a  ribbon cutting ceremony on October 5.  A vigorous partnership between the Lake George ... Read More