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NCPR News Staff: Chris Knight
Adirondack Correspondent
Chris Knight Chris Knight is a senior staff writer for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise in Saranac Lake. Before joining the Enterprise, Chris was the news director for Mountain Communications, which owns several Saranac Lake radio stations, for eight years. Chris works for North Country Public Radio as an occasional contributing reporter.Away from work, Chris enjoys hiking, skiing, kayaking and just about anything else in the outdoors. He and his wife Kate-Lyn live in Saranac Lake and have two children. E-mail
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NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo during an interview with an Enterprise reporter at the newspaper's offices Friday in Saranac Lake. Photo: Mike Lynch, courtesy Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Cuomo drops in to talk Adirondack issues
Saranac Lake, NY, Dec 31, 2012 — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his family have spent the last few days vacationing in the Adirondacks. Cuomo's two daughters have been skiing at Whiteface Mountain while the governor has been working on his State of the State speech.
The governor paid a surprise visit to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise offices in Saranac Lake Friday where he sat down for a cup of coffee with the newspaper's staff and talked about tourism, hydraulic fracturing, the state's property tax cap and other topics. Go to full article
The governor paid a surprise visit to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise offices in Saranac Lake Friday where he sat down for a cup of coffee with the newspaper's staff and talked about tourism, hydraulic fracturing, the state's property tax cap and other topics. Go to full article
Chandler Ralph, Adirondack Health President and CEO.
Adirondack Health adds to string of hospital layoffs
Saranac Lake, NY, Dec 10, 2012 — Another North Country hospital is laying off employees. Adirondack Health, which owns hospitals, nursing homes and health clinics in the Tri-Lakes area, announced Friday that it's cutting 17 jobs to help close a $3 million budget shortfall.
Adirondack Health is one of several health care organizations across the North Country to announce layoffs in recent months. Last week, Claxton Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg announced it was laying off six employees and had eliminated a total of nine positions.
Last month, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center in Plattsburgh laid off 17 employees. Also last month, Glens Falls Hospital announced it was eliminating 29 positions and reducing five other employees to part-time hours.
Adirondack Health officials attributed the shortfall to a drop-off in inpatient volume and declining reimbursements. Go to full article
Adirondack Health is one of several health care organizations across the North Country to announce layoffs in recent months. Last week, Claxton Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg announced it was laying off six employees and had eliminated a total of nine positions.
Last month, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center in Plattsburgh laid off 17 employees. Also last month, Glens Falls Hospital announced it was eliminating 29 positions and reducing five other employees to part-time hours.
Adirondack Health officials attributed the shortfall to a drop-off in inpatient volume and declining reimbursements. Go to full article
Maynard Baker's lawsuit sought access to remote ponds and lakes by planes like this one, of Helms flying service. Photo: by permission from Tom Helms
Former Warrensburg supervisor drops motorized access suit
Warrensburg, NY, Nov 30, 2012 — Former Warrensburg supervisor Maynard Baker has dropped his federal lawsuit seeking floatplane access to more than three dozen remote ponds and lakes in the Adirondacks.
The suit sought to reopen nearly 40 Adirondack lakes and ponds, arguing that a state ban violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. It followed a floatplane ban on Low's Lake near Tupper Lake.
Baker says he brought the suit on behalf of people with disabilities, but he can't afford to go head to head with New York State over the issue any more. Go to full article
The suit sought to reopen nearly 40 Adirondack lakes and ponds, arguing that a state ban violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. It followed a floatplane ban on Low's Lake near Tupper Lake.
Baker says he brought the suit on behalf of people with disabilities, but he can't afford to go head to head with New York State over the issue any more. Go to full article
Hunters Joe Trudeau of Plainville, left, and his father, Claude Trudeau of Waverly, gear up to go into the woods at a trailhead on state Route 3 in the town of Harrietstown, in the Saranac Lakes Wild Forest. Photo: Chris Knight via Adirondack Daily Enterprise
DEC looks to streamline frustrating management process
Ray Brook, NY, Nov 26, 2012 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced earlier this year that the state will buy 69,000 acres of former Finch, Pruyn and Co. timberlands in the Adirondack Park over the next five years. As part of the process, the state Department of Environmental Conservation will be tasked with creating a management plan for each of those units.
A unit management plan, or UMP, will need to be in place before any new recreational amenities, like hiking or snowmobile trails, or campsites and lean-tos, can be created.
But the DEC has struggled to finish management plans for all the state land it already owns, with some plans taking decades to complete.
That has frustrated those who see the plans as necessary for improving recreation and increasing tourism in their communities, and one DEC official says the state is now taking a different look at how to plan for managing the Forest Preserve. Go to full article
A unit management plan, or UMP, will need to be in place before any new recreational amenities, like hiking or snowmobile trails, or campsites and lean-tos, can be created.
But the DEC has struggled to finish management plans for all the state land it already owns, with some plans taking decades to complete.
That has frustrated those who see the plans as necessary for improving recreation and increasing tourism in their communities, and one DEC official says the state is now taking a different look at how to plan for managing the Forest Preserve. Go to full article
Corrie Miller, right, director of the AuSable River Association, speaks during a state Adirondack Park Agency discussion on climate change. Stephanie Ratcliffe, left, director of The Wild Center, and Paul Smith's College professor Curt Stager also made presentations to the agency's commissioners.
Experts: Adirondacks should prepare for climate change
Saranac Lake, NY, Nov 23, 2012 — The climate of the Adirondacks is getting warmer and wetter, and the Park and its communities will likely experience more extreme weather events in the years to come. That's what Paul Smith's College professor and paleoclimatologist Curt Stager told state Adirondack Park Agency commissioners last week during a panel discussion on climate change. The session was hosted by the agency's Public Awareness and Communications Committee. Go to full article
A film crew from Maryland-based Signature Communications prepares to shoot scenes for a film about George Washington Carver in Historic Saranac Lake's Trudeau Laboratory on Church Street Wednesday. The actor in the white suit playing Carver is Altorro Black. Standing to his left is the film's producer, John Allen.
(Adirondack Daily Enterprise photo -- Chris Knight)
(Adirondack Daily Enterprise photo -- Chris Knight)
New film sets scenes at Trudeau lab
Saranac Lake, NY, Nov 21, 2012 — A film crew was in Saranac Lake last week to shoot scenes for a National Park Service film it's producing about George Washington Carver. Carver was a prominent African-American scientist and inventor best known for the many uses he devised for the peanut.
The Maryland-based film crew is using the laboratory where scientist Edward Livingston Trudeau conducted his tuberculosis research as the backdrop for several scenes in the film. The lab has been restored by Historic Saranac Lake, which runs it as a museum and history center.
Chris Knight visited the set during a break in filming last week. Go to full article
The Maryland-based film crew is using the laboratory where scientist Edward Livingston Trudeau conducted his tuberculosis research as the backdrop for several scenes in the film. The lab has been restored by Historic Saranac Lake, which runs it as a museum and history center.
Chris Knight visited the set during a break in filming last week. Go to full article
Mark J. Gillis. Photo: Courtesy Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Local broker barred for fraud
Saranac Lake, NY, Nov 19, 2012 — An investment banker and securities broker from Saranac Lake has been barred from the securities industry for defrauding his customers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Mark J. Gillis and the financial management firm he co-owns, Hudson Valley Capital Management, have been expelled for using customer funds to cover losses caused by his improper day trading.
That's according to an investigation by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the independent corporation that regulates the securities industry in the U.S. Go to full article
Mark J. Gillis and the financial management firm he co-owns, Hudson Valley Capital Management, have been expelled for using customer funds to cover losses caused by his improper day trading.
That's according to an investigation by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the independent corporation that regulates the securities industry in the U.S. Go to full article
Bob Bevilacqua (right) shakes hands with Tom Catillaz in the Harrietstown Town Hall Tuesday night after Bevilcqua defeated Catillaz in the race for Town Supervisor. Photo: Chris Knight via Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Bevilacqua beats Catillaz for Harrietstown Supervisor seat
Nov 07, 2012 — One of the most hotly contested local races in the North Country yesterday was in the Saranac Lake area, where two political veterans battled for the position of town of Harrietstown supervisor.
With a strong turnout at the polls, Republican town Councilman Bob Bevilacqua beat Democrat and village Trustee Tom Catillaz. Go to full article
With a strong turnout at the polls, Republican town Councilman Bob Bevilacqua beat Democrat and village Trustee Tom Catillaz. Go to full article
NYU Medical Center in Manhattan. Photo: Joe Schlabotnik, CC some rights reserved
Sandy: At the center of the crisis
New York, NY, Nov 02, 2012 — North Country residents with family and friends in the greater New York City area have been reaching out to their loved ones in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Phil Brown, who lives in Saranac Lake and is the editor of the Adirondack Explorer news magazine, has been using Facebook to stay in touch with his daughter Becky, who was at the center of one of the biggest stories during the storm.
Becky Brown is a pediatric nurse at New York University Hospital Medical Center, which had to be evacuated Monday night after it lost power and its backup generators failed. She didn't return to her Long Island apartment until noontime Tuesday. Go to full article
Phil Brown, who lives in Saranac Lake and is the editor of the Adirondack Explorer news magazine, has been using Facebook to stay in touch with his daughter Becky, who was at the center of one of the biggest stories during the storm.
Becky Brown is a pediatric nurse at New York University Hospital Medical Center, which had to be evacuated Monday night after it lost power and its backup generators failed. She didn't return to her Long Island apartment until noontime Tuesday. Go to full article
Kristen Rohne, an educator with the Lake George Association, sieves for Asian clams during a lakewide survey completed in September 2012. Photo: Emily DeBolt, Lake George Association
Battle broadens against invasives in Lake George
Lake George, NY, Oct 24, 2012 — Lake George is a battleground once again as the fight against invasive Asian clams broadens. And that fight has implications for the rest of the Adirondack Park. Lake George is known for its crystal clear water, and the invasive clams can cause algae blooms and lower water quality significantly.
$1.5 million has been spent over the last two years to eradicate the fast-breeding mollusks. But Asian clams have now been found in eight different areas on the 32-mile-long lake. A broad coalition is seeking more money, and more help.
Lake George officials are now considering a bold step to prevent further infestations - making the lake the first water body in the state where boat inspections and decontamination are mandatory. Go to full article
$1.5 million has been spent over the last two years to eradicate the fast-breeding mollusks. But Asian clams have now been found in eight different areas on the 32-mile-long lake. A broad coalition is seeking more money, and more help.
Lake George officials are now considering a bold step to prevent further infestations - making the lake the first water body in the state where boat inspections and decontamination are mandatory. Go to full article
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