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EPA awards $1.5M for PFAS detection research

Clarkson University has received a grant worth nearly $1.5 million from the Environmental Protection Agency for research to develop and demonstrate nanosensor technology that has the potential to detect, monitor and degrade PFAS in groundwater or surface water that may be used as drinking ...

Lake Placid vet makes Honor Flight trip today

LAKE PLACID — The deck was buzzing with friends, neighbors and about a dozen forest rangers as Ed McCasland, 85, waited to be picked up by a motorcade that would escort him to Plattsburgh. McCasland was selected as one of 30 veterans across the North Country who will take two planes ...

Broadway to be partially closed Tuesday

SARANAC LAKE — On Tuesday, a section of Broadway between Dorsey Street and Bloomingdale Avenue will be closed for road work from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Village Department of Public Works Superintendent Dustin Martin said crews will be milling the street, replacing manhole covers and frames and ...

Moving in and moving on

SARANAC LAKE — Sarah Clarkin, who has been the executive director for the Harrietstown Housing Authority for the past 12 years, is retiring next month. After more than a decade of helping provide housing for Saranac Lake’s working class, elderly population and young families, she said ...

Choo Choo Ch’Boogie

TUPPER LAKE — Things are on track for the Tupper Lake train station and nearby maintenance shed renovation projects. The work, which began shortly after the solar eclipse in April, is scheduled to be completed next July, according to Erik Thomas, the engineer in charge of the projects. ...