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State Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens says he hopes the state Assembly will approve a land-swap deal for the Adirondacks that would help NYCO Minerals continue...
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"Dirty Blonde" is running in rep at Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake through August 31.
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Home rule legislation that would allow St. Lawrence County to raise its sales tax by one percent passed in the New York State Assembly Thursday. County legislative chairman...
Mary Louise Kelly used to cover national security for NPR, but lately she's turned her attention to fiction. Her new novel, Anonymous Sources, draws on Kelly's own...
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The first-ever study of more than 1,100 schools of education released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality shows that teacher preparation is in disarray. The...
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The case dates from April of 2012, when a female midshipman reported that she had been sexually assaulted by three men after she went to a party in Annapolis. The men have...
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Now, Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum has...
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More than a decade ago, when prisoners captured in Afghanistan and Iraq began arriving at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, I remember thinking, “We already know how to do...
Farmers of all stripes are up to their eyeballs in work right now. But a bunch of them are taking some time off this weekend to celebrate the summer solstice and get social....
The long stretches of rain haven’t made this growing season easy for anyone so far. Farmers are scrambling to get in the hay when they can. Tomatoes are languishing...
A couple of remainders to wrap up the week. New York’s State Senate passed a bill that would direct government agencies to make a list of New York farm fresh products...
Cassandra Corcoran in Vermont, sent me some great shots of her garden, shared here. But I have to tell you that my favorite is the nest in the tree.
Remember to keep...
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Kim Dadou steps to the podium in a conference room in Albany, New York.
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Today the Department of Justice released the results of a survey revealing that almost ten percent of youth in juvenile correctional facilities have been sexually...
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You live in the Adirondack North Country and you figure, “whew, safe from all those writers and literary types.” Ha! Not so. We have writers. Writers galore. Good...
Update: Mason Smith’s novel Far Alaska was chosen this year as the winner for Best in Fiction by the Adirondack Center for Writing. More on this year’s awards We...
"Dirty Blonde" is running in rep at Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake through August 31.
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