News Staff DEC announced that grants totaling $1.18 million have been awarded to communities across the state to inventory, plant, and maintain public trees. The grants are part of the second phase of grants through DEC’s Division of Lands and Forests’ Urban and Community Forestry Program, which works to increase public awareness of the importance of trees … Read more
The Adirondack Council awarded 21 micro-grants totaling $29,601 to local farmers and value-added food producers, in an effort to build a climate-friendly local economy in the Adirondack Park. According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, awarded projects include composting units for local food waste recycling, an electric-assist cargo-bike, cover cropping and energy-efficient equipment.
Office hours for UVM Health Network – Alice Hyde Medical Center Outpatient Clinics and Primary Care offices and health centers are changing next week, as the organization moves to standardize patient access. Effective May 1, all of Alice Hyde’s outpatient clinics and provider practice offices, including the community-based health centers, will be offering expanded weekday hours. The clinics … Read more
Homeward Bound Adirondacks (HBA) is holding its annual fund drive, beginning Saturday, May 1 st , and continuing every Saturday in May, from 9:00-12:00 noon, where volunteers will be selling tickets for our “Grocery Stampede” in three hometown stores. The three independent grocery stores participating include Shaheen’s IGA in Tupper Lake. Every store participating in … Read more
The Tupper Lake Central School District has put forward a budget for next year that is below the tax cap. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports a public hearing on the budget will be held Tuesday, May 4, and voters will take a vote on it May 18. The $20,549,718 budget increased $1,143,767 from last year, … Read more
USA Nordic has nominated 45 American athletes to its 2021-22 national and junior nordic combined and ski jumping team. Among them, for the women’s national ski jumping team, 27 year old Nina Lussi of Lake Placid. For the nordic combined ski junior team, 16 year old Tate Frantz of Lake Placid, Athletes achieved the nominations … Read more
Adirondack Foundation welcomes Jim Allison, David Sand and Carolyn Sicher to its Board of Trustees. In addition to new trustees, the foundation also established a Community Council to broaden perspectives and engage people across the region. Allison is president of a company that provides respiratory services and home medical equipment for veterans. Sand is an … Read more
There is a COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic in Saranac Lake Thursday. That’s on April 29th for all who are 18 or older and live, work, or study in New York. Moderna vaccine will be administered. You can register through a link on the Franklin County Public Health Facebook page.
The Town of North Elba will enter a long-term lease agreement with the New York Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) for their use of the former Lake Placid Memorial Hospital property. The Town took over ownership of this property in 2019; this ownership will be retained and ORDA will lease the site for 50 years … Read more
The 2020 estimated deer take included 137,557 antlerless deer and 116,433 antlered bucks. Statewide, this represents a 30-percent increase in antlerless harvest and a three-percent decrease in buck harvest from the last season. Across the board, whether with a bow, muzzleloader, or rifle, hunters targeted antlerless deer more in 2020 than 2019. Hunters took 33,260 … Read more