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A big redevelopment project is getting underway in the Thousand Islands village of Clayton. The first pieces of equipment are now at work on the former Frink snowplow factory...
State officials announced yesterday that they'll begin public hearings in June to decide how the former Finch Pruyn timberlands will be managed, now that they've been added...
Over the last week the Oneida Nation and the Mohawk Native have reached settlements with the Cuomo administration giving them exclusive rights to operate casinos in their...
Governor Cuomo says that he will make a decision regarding to fracking before the 2014 election. New York City's DEP says they will open up four upstate reservoirs for the...
This is John Warren from the Adirondack Almanack with your look at outdoor recreation conditions around the Adirondacks for this Memorial Day weekend.
On Tuesday, Governor Cuomo and the chiefs of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe announced a surprise deal in Albany. It grants the Mohawks' exclusive gaming rights in the North...
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's department violated the rights of Latinos in its crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge says, issuing an injunction against...
If President Obama's newly recalibrated counterterrorism strategy demonstrates anything, it is his penchant for nuance.
In the aftermath of the destruction in Moore, Okla., residents throughout Tornado Alley want storm shelters installed in schools. Some schools in the region already have...
Many black women in the U.S. have or know someone who has done domestic work. With an expanding black middle class, some find themselves conflicted: To hire help or not?
Los Angeles is home to a large slice of the world's bluejeans trade. But as the U.S. apparel industry continues to shrink, the city's high-end bluejeans business faces a...
In 2003, Richard Rubin set out to talk to every American veteran of World War I he could find. With help from the French, he tracked down dozens of centenarian vets and...
First some disclosure. I was maybe the worst Boy Scout in the history of scouting. Not because I was gay.
But because I wasn’t — as a kid – particularly...
Update Friday 8 am. The boil water advisory was lifted late Thursday evening after tests showed no dangerous bacteria, such as E. coli, in the affected water. Here’s...
If you’re a reader of the Adirondack Almanack blog or the Adirondack Daily Enterprise’s letter-to-the-editor column, you know that there is a deep, nasty and and...
There are all kinds of dating sites for all kinds of people out there. Recently, there’s been a surge in dating sites for farmers and other rural people. According to...
There’s been a media hub-bub since yesterday about the so-called dark side of NY’s Greek yogurt boom. A report by Justin Elliott in Modern Farmer explains that...
We wrote about Potsdam grower Daniel Martin’s plans for a new style of farmstand a few months ago, and now it’s up and a running. Martin’s market isn’t at the...
With local land taxes skyrocketing, today’s NY Times article about corporate pass-through tax restructuring raised my blood pressure. But then I thought, heck, just...
Monday is Memorial Day, and this weekend is the traditional beginning of the summer vacation season. It might be time to open camp for the season, to put in the boat, to have...
The Indian Lake Theater, this Saturday, May 25 from noon to 4 pm.
Five years ago people in the Indian Lake region came together to save and rejuvenate their movie theater....
Kanye West’s performance on last week’s Saturday Night Live (video below) embraced the idea that America’s huge prison system has turned a generation of...
One of the enduring realities of life behind bars is that people on the inside often want and need support from people on the outside.
Sometimes that yearning – which...
William M. Fine passed away last week at the age of 86.
He was a magazine publisher, and advised the State Department on relationships with Northern Ireland.
He also had a...
Sure, we may still see some frosty nights, but the days have lengthened and the end of the school season is within sight. When I was growing up–regardless of where I...
Brian Mann: Monday 1:47 pm So let’s say you’re someone who discovered by way of “Game of Thrones” that modern fantasy is actually a grown-up genre,...
We know the cliches: “Home is where the heart is;” “Home is where when you knock at the door, they have to let you in;” “Home is a haven in a heartless world;”...
Almost twenty years ago, Christine Jerome and her husband paddled a weeks-long canoe route through the Adirondacks. They followed the path of a nineteenth-century writer and...
Todd Moe talks with the local author of a new book about healthier eating and taking care of our bodies. Paula Youmell is a nurse and certified holistic health counselor....
"Miss Caledonia" is playing in the Studio at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa through May 25. Melody A. Johnson runs the gamut from farmer girl to beauty pageant...
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(May 24 to May 25, 07:30 pm) Birds With Skymirrors was born following Lemi Ponifasio's visit to a remote Pacific island where he caught sight of frigate birds carrying videotapes in their beaks, glinting like mirrors. It is a meditation on our relationship with planet Earth. National Arts Centre (NAC), 53 Elgin Street,Ottawa,ON More info
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(May 31, 2013, 07:00 pm) Adirondack Dance Company presents An Evening of the Arts Featuring Snow White - the Ballet. Tickets are $10 for Adult and $8 for Senior/Child. Tickets are available at the door. SUNY Plattsburgh: E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh,Plattsburgh,NY
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