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North Country CC adds new technology to Radiology Lab

SARANAC LAKE — Students in North Country Community College’s Radiologic Technology program will benefit from a significant technology upgrade. The program’s Radiology Lab, located on the Saranac Lake campus, was updated recently with the college’s first-ever digital radiography ...

Local students on SUNY Oswego honor rolls

OSWEGO — SUNY Oswego recently recognized several Franklin County residents as high academic achievers on its President’s List and Deans’ List for the fall 2024 semester. President’s List students are those attaining semester grade-point averages of 3.8 or higher while carrying ...

Long Lake welcomes Jacob Fisch as new events coordinator

LONG LAKE — The Town of Long Lake Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department welcomed Jacob “Jake” Fisch as the new events coordinator. Fisch will be leading the charge on events planning, logistics and community engagement, working closely with Director Alexandra Roalsvig and the entire ...

Saranac Lake Middle School Honor Roll third Quarter

SARANAC LAKE — The following students were named to the third quarter academic honor roll at Saranac Lake Middle School. Grade 8 Madelyn Allard Kenneth Beiras Nathaniel Besio Chloe Burch Leland Carpenter Medina Cecunjanin Zander Clark Amelia Colarusso Emii Colby Nora ...

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Local news deemed ‘essential’ but strained amid outbreak

Jennifer Zahn, a Saranac Laker and Enterprise subscriber, has a morning ritual. She wakes up at 6 a.m. every day, goes downstairs and grabs her copy of the newspaper. She said she likes to know what’s going on in town and feels that she would be out of the loop without the newspaper. She ...

With Maple Weekends canceled, here’s a sugarhouse tour

LAKE PLACID — Since the New York State Maple Producers’ Association canceled the Maple Weekends — March 21-22 and March 28-29 — and the state government has issued public assembly restrictions and social-distancing guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic, residents and tourists have ...

The shows might go on …

Teachers Brenden Gotham and Taylor Prosper painted sets for Lake Placid High School’s production of “Cinderella” Saturday night. They dipped brushes and created a fairy tale world. A feeling in the pit of their stomachs filled them with uncertainty, but they kept painting anyway. “I ...

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Slap-happy volunteer

SARANAC LAKE — Liam Lawless gets a rush out of slapping slush. Lawless, 6, was possibly the youngest member of the Ice Palace Workers Local 101 this year. On Jan. 23, after his birthday earlier that week and after months of hounding his dad, Ken, to join the volunteers, he was finally ...

Volunteers of the Year: Rich and Debby Harrison

The Enterprise’s volunteer of the year this year is actually two volunteers — Debby and Rich Harrison of Rainbow Lake. “You can’t have one without the other,” Janice Fitzgerald wrote in her letter nominating the couple for the distinction. “They are a team who put service above ...

Library Ladies

KEENE VALLEY — Keene’s two libraries, traditionally separate entities, have been operating as one since the beginning of this past November. Keene Public Library Director Aaron Miller, library staff, as well as the computer system and part of the book collection, have moved temporarily to ...

Making masks by the thousands

SARANAC LAKE — A year into the pandemic, it’s sometimes hard to remember that masks were once a scarce commodity. Long before they came in every style, pattern and color imaginable, a group of local volunteer artists and seamstresses banded together to make them from scratch. After her ...

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95 years on the keys and counting

SARANAC LAKE — Tomi Gallagher ran her fingers over the keys of a baby grand piano inside the great room of the Saranac Village at Will Rogers retirement community. The light and cheery notes of her “warm-up song” rang out, slow, then fast and rich with atmosphere — the result of 95 ...

From the Adirondacks to the Senate

In November, like many recent college graduates, Charlotte Ward returned home for Thanksgiving. Unlike most college graduates, she came back with her new boss, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, in tow. Ward is a native of Jay and a correspondence assistant in Schumer’s office. On the ...

New York City theater manager got his start in Saranac Lake

Though he is now a seasoned theater veteran, Saranac Lake native Peter Dean’s first role was small but mighty: A puny pickpocket in a 1980 production of “Oliver!” at the Harrietstown Town Hall. “It’s a time-honored tradition: The role of the youngest pickpocket, that is ultimately ...

The (robot) doctor is in

SARANAC LAKE — When Tri-Lakes resident Matt Cook has dialysis patients to see in Plattsburgh, Elizabethtown and Malone, it would usually take at least a one-hour drive between each clinic. But with new technology the Plattsburgh-based kidney disease clinic he works at has adopted in recent ...