News Staff Tupper Lake Central School District will stay in remote instruction through March 1. The district has already been remote since Jan. 13. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports officials call it a huge disruption in learning but they’re hopeful that at the end of this one-month period that school will be able to be reliably held … Read more
The Essex County Health Department was notified late today by NYSDOH that the first case of UK strain was identified in an Essex County resident. The strain was sequenced following random sampling conducted by the NYSDOH Wadsworth laboratory as part of the state’s COVID-19 Strain Surveillance efforts. Public health experts are working to better understand … Read more
The Joint Review Board has set a public hearing next month on a new housing development off of Wesvalley Road, one of three housing developments now in the works in Lake Placid. The Adirondack Daily Enteprise reports the new 22-unit development, called Fawn Valley, is being undertaken by the Homestead Development Corporation. It’s one of … Read more
Work on this year’s Winter Carnival Ice Palace will begin Thursday, but a small team has already been putting in long hours in the cold to prepare the ice for harvesting. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports the work will go on despite the pandemic and uncooperative weather. This year, the palace this year will be … Read more
Dr. Joseph A. Henderson, Paul Smith’s College Environment & Society faculty member, alongside Dr. K.C. Busch (NC State University), secured a $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation to advance climate change education research. Together, Drs. Busch and Henderson alongside Dr. Don Haas from the Paleontological Research Institution (Ithaca, NY) used the funding from the grant … Read more
The Saranac Lake Middle School — grades six through eight — will be learning remotely through the rest of the week. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports two members of the middle school community tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, leading to quarantines, it does not have enough staff to continue. The school will be … Read more
State Police conducted a traffic stop on State Route 3 in the town of Harrietstown, on a Dodge Journey for speed, 71 mph in a posted 55 mph speed zone. The operator, 43-year-old Douglas L. Corrow, of Tupper Lake, was arrested after he initially gave investigating troopers false information, and was found to be driving … Read more
Recently, local law enforcement in Clinton County have been investigating the origins of counterfeit oxycodone pain medications that have found their way to the North Country. The markings on these blue pills contain an “M” and a “30” and currently, the counterfeit pills are believed to contain compressed fentanyl. The public is urged to be … Read more
A man and woman in their 60s were killed in a house fire in the Adirondacks, New York state police said Monday. Firefighters from several departments responded to the blaze in Pierrepont at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, authorities said. They found Ricky Gollinger, 64, and Lena Gollinger, 62, trapped inside the burning house. The husband and … Read more
Recently, State Police arrested four teens following a burglary reported on November 22, 2020, at the former Cell Science Center on Barn Road in the town of North Elba. State Police investigated after the Lake Placid Fire Department responded to a report of the fire alarm system being triggered. First responders found broken windows, spray … Read more