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Grants approved for St. Agnes, other community efforts

LAKE PLACID — The North Elba Town Council approved 15 grants on Tuesday from the Local Enhancement and Advancement Fund. These grants support projects by local organizations that provide direct benefit to the community. The council also approved three applicants to the Cannabis Sales ...

New funding available for rehabilitating historic properties

KEESEVILLE — Adirondack Architectural Heritage has opened a new round of funding for the Adirondack Rural Revitalization Program. The program is open to private, public and nonprofit owners of historic properties throughout the Adirondack region — Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, ...

Sackets Harbor ICE Raid shows the ‘reality’ of New York dairy country

Residents of Sackets Harbor, a small Northern New York town that looks at Canada across Lake Ontario, have been reeling since federal immigration enforcement agents raided a dairy farm there last month. Agents detained three students enrolled in the town’s 400-student K-12 school — a third ...

Growing season

SARANAC LAKE — Temperatures were just below freezing on Wednesday afternoon, but the greenhouses at the SL Hot House Garden Center were a balmy 80, as the tiny sprouts of basil, dill, marigolds and petunias started poking through the soil. Hot House Manager Lou Reuter giddily showed off ...

State budget negotiations are at a standstill

ALBANY — Budget negotiations seem to have ground to a halt in the state Capitol, and Gov. Kathy Hochul has added a new ask into her negotiations to change how candidates for lieutenant governor are picked. At a press conference Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, ...

‘Out of many, one people’

SARANAC LAKE — On Friday, 18 people representing 16 countries were sworn in as new United States citizens at a well-attended naturalization ceremony at Saranac Lake High School. The packed school auditorium temporarialy became a federal courthouse as U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel ...