News Staff Recently, Senator Dan Stec (R.C-Queensbury) honored the Tupper Lake Lions Club for its recent 90th anniversary. Stec presented an official Senate proclamation to past Lions Club president Stuart Nichols in Tupper Lake Village Hall, where he was joined by Tupper Lake Mayor Mary Fontana and Town Supervisor Rick Dattola. The Adirondack Explorer reports the senator … Read more
The annual after-school Downtown Saranac Lake Trick-or-Treat will return this year on Halloween. According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, from 2 to 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 31, the village of Saranac Lake will close Main Street and Broadway from the Harrietstown Town Hall to the post office for trick-or-treating. Participating businesses will display a … Read more
In New York State, Early Voting is available for nine days prior to the General Election. This year, early voting polls are open every day from Oct. 25 to Nov. 2. Election Day is Nov. 4 with polls open in every voting district. In Essex County, early voting polls are set up iat the Lake … Read more
The 34-mile Adirondack Rail Trail from Lake Placid in the east to Tupper Lake in the west is fully open for year-round use. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports state and local officials, along with rail trail advocates and stakeholders, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Tupper Lake train station Saturday afternoon to mark the occasion.
Mark Hall is the Adirondack Park Agency’s next board chair. According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Hall, who has served as an APA board member since June 2020, was selected by Gov. Kathy Hochul to fill the role, the governor’s office announced Friday. The position opened in June when then-chair John Ernst announced his retirement. … Read more
About 370,000 New Yorkers get their electricity through NYPA’s ‘preference power rates.’ That includes North Country residents in Lake Placid and Tupper Lake. The rates are tied to hydropower from dams on the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers, the latter of which is in Massena. The Adirondack Explorer reports NYPA has put forth a new … Read more
The Adirondack Educational Center (AEC), part of Franklin-Essex-Hamilton BOCES, will host an Open House today, from 5 to 7 p.m. at 711 state Route 3, Saranac Lake. According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the event invites students, families, and community members to explore AEC’s wide range of career and technical education and alternative education programs.
The coming November elections in Essex County are expected to include an unusually high number of write-in campaigns, underscoring the importance of local messaging and voter education. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports Essex County Republican Commissioner Roy Holzer said the number of write-in campaigns this year is unprecedented, as far as he can recall. While … Read more
Employees at the Starbucks location on Main Street found out on Thursday that, in two days, they would be out of a job. According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the location officially closed on Saturday, as part of a national wave of Starbucks closures. For many in the community, the only heads-up was a note … Read more
The second annual High Peaks Harvest Festival is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Oct. 18, from 12 to 4 p.m. at Berkley Green in downtown Saranac Lake. Sun Community News reports the harvest festival is a celebration of fall in the region, and the kickoff to the Saranac Lake Farmers Market moving from Riverside … Read more