Lots of places to drop off your used pumpkins once you’re done with them. Lake Placid: Placid Earth Composting at Shipman Youth Center, Nov 1-4. Saranac Lake: Blue Line Compost at the Common Ground Community Garden Nov 5th between 10am and 3pm. And, Tupper Lake: The Hub, 320 Park Street – any day, any time, … Read more
On October 16, 2022, around 1:00 p.m., New York State Police and Tupper Lake Police Department responded to a vehicle fire in a field off of McCarthy Street in the Village of Tupper Lake. Investigation revealed the vehicle to be a black 2009 GMC Sierra pick-up truck. Tupper Lake PD and State Police are requesting … Read more
Less than three months before the Opening Ceremony, an international group of officials are in Lake Placid, N.Y. through Monday, Oct. 24, for a final check of venues and operations for the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games. Eight International University Sports Federation (FISU) officials are in Lake Placid and the surrounding Adirondack communities … Read more
Assemblyman Billy Jones announced three bills to help address key issues facing volunteer fire departments across the state. The Sun Community News reports one bill creates a Volunteer Firefighter Training Fund to help cover the cost of travel and missing work. Another creates a college scholarship for new members and the third creates the Volunteer … Read more
A judge in Malone Town Court found cause to hold Joshua P. Donais in jail until the case is heard by a grand jury. The Owls Head man is charged in the stabbing death of Donald I. Raymond. Donais faces a second-degree murder charge for an incident at 215 Elm Street in Malone in which … Read more
The Pontiac parking lot on Broadway in Saranac Lake will reopen next week after a nearly three-month closure while new bathrooms were built there. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports the lot will be open for public parking again by next Tuesday. The three temporary parking spots that were put in place along the stretch of … Read more
A ranger rescue in the Town of North Elba. A hiker suffering from a non-ambulatory leg injury approximately three-quarters of the way up the Mt. Van Hoevenberg East trail needed help. Rangers responded along with an ORDA medic. The medic reached the 49-year-old and packaged the subject in a litter and carried her out to … Read more
After roughly two weeks of intense technical search and recovery efforts involving multiple local agencies and dozens of volunteers, the body of a Georgia man was recovered from the AuSable River Wednesday. According to the Sun Community News, the State Police Underwater Recovery Team located George M. Thevis, 68, in the river Oct. 12. The … Read more
The Saranac Lake Village Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved an amendment to its local snowmobile law to allow snowmobiles to drive on a roughly 200-foot portion of Main Street. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports board members say the small change has raised community concerns about the village’s broader snowmobile law and led the board … Read more
The Saranac Lake Village Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved an amendment to its local snowmobile law to allow snowmobiles to drive on a roughly 200-foot portion of Main Street. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports board members say the small change has raised community concerns about the village’s broader snowmobile law and led the board … Read more