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After the last of the ice leaves the lake, the annual smelt run begins. The small fish enter the lake’s tributaries and head upstream to spawn. One year, when the temperature hovered near freezing and a heavy snow caused a thick layer of slush to ... Read More

Rattlesnakes, it used to be said, do not advance beyond the oaks. Neither, apparently, does Lymantria dispar – commonly known as the gypsy or spongy moth. Since the creature feeds primarily on oaks, maples and other hardwoods, species ... Read More

Ken Parker, a former resident of Bolton Landing and a member of the Lake George Park Commission since 2006, is the state agency’s new chairman. Parker was elected by his fellow commissioners to succeed Bruce Young, who served as chairman from 2002 ... Read More

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