News Staff Fresh from hosting its first World Cup mountain biking races, the Lake Placid region is adding another discipline to mix next year. The Adirondack Explorer reports Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced that the Adirondack Park resort area would host downhill for the first time in addition to cross-country races … Read more
Investors with at least $550,000 interested in purchasing the former Big Tupper ski center and property around it in Tupper Lake will have a bidder’s chance on the wooded acreage on Nov. 7 in Malone. According to the Adirondack Explorer, the long-closed downhill facility, Cranberry Pond, a small marina and vacant land, a total of … Read more
The Adirondack Alliance Church held an ordination service Sunday afternoon for Dan Ockrin, who had been serving as the church’s interim pastor since December 2022, according to the church’s website. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports the service, which Ockrin described as similar to a graduation ceremony, capped off a four-year period of work, study and … Read more
The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts (ALCA) is awarding an all-time record-high amount for the region it serves of more than $250,000 in regrants to locally based arts and cultural organizations, teaching artists and individual creative artists, including via a second round of funding, the application window for which is scheduled to open by … Read more
The Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation (ACLC) invites everyone to celebrate common loons at the Paul Smith’s College VIC, 8023 NYS Rte. 30, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13. Thie mostly free, family-friendly event will feature loon-related activities throughout the day: More information is available at www.adkloon.org/events.
The 5th annual Tupper Lake Plein Air Festival culminates tonight with a reception that celebrates outdoor painting around Tupper Lake. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports after plein air painting all week, 27 artists — including 10 who are painting in the festival for the first time — will showcase their work at the Tupper Arts … Read more
Construction on the Aubuchon Hardware plaza on Broadway is expected to start some time in November, and construction crews are currently preparing the site to lay the foundation for a new building after the former one was destroyed in a fire in early 2023. The goal is to work into the winter with the hope … Read more
he Village of Saranac Lake and the Hotel Saranac have entered into a new partnership to present this year’s High Peaks Harvest Festival, Saturday, Oct. 19. Sun Community News reports the day-long event will kick off the transition from the market’s Riverside Park setting to the home of its Winter Market at the Hotel Saranac.
A motorcycle crash on Route 86 recently claimed the life of a Rochester man. New York State Police said the accident happened at about 11:50 a.m. Sept. 27. Authorities said Alec J. Ricci, 27, was riding a 1997 Honda motorcycle north on Route 86 when he failed to navigate a curve, causing him to be … Read more
A Tupper Lake man who was involved in a tense six hour standoff with law enforcement at the Tupper Lake Stewart’s Shops in January 2023 was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday. According to the Adirondack Daily Enteprise, 45 year old David Payro pleaded guilty to making a terroristic threat, a felony, before … Read more