How many people came to the Tri-Lakes for the April 8 total solar eclipse? The exact number is impossible to pinpoint, but state officials and local event planners are offering up their best informed guesses, which collectively point to tens of thousands of visitors to this area for the rare ...

LAKE PLACID — Most visitors to the Tri-Lakes for Monday’s eclipse planned their trips well in advance, with some waiting seven years to experience totality. Others, like CBS2 News chief weathercaster Lonnie Quinn and his crew, set their sights on the Adirondack Park with less than 24 ...

TUPPER LAKE — Even before the eclipse began on Monday, the thousands of people at L.P. Quinn Elementary School in Tupper Lake got stellar up-close views of the sun through the eyepieces of telescopes brought by members of the Adirondack Sky Center and Observatory, NASA eclipse ambassadors ...

With the total solar eclipse now passed, the Tri-Lakes are flush with eclipse glasses. The rare phenomenon is not scheduled to return to the area for quite some time, so several organizations in the area are collecting the eyewear to recycle them. Most are partnering with the group ...

Thousands of visitors arrived in the Tri-Lakes on Monday in hopes of experiencing more than three minutes of darkness as the sun was completely eclipsed by the moon. A solar eclipse of this scale has been called a once-in-a-lifetime event, especially in the North Country, where another will ...