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Maple syrup season underway
(03/10/10) The maple syrup season is underway across much of the North Country. It's already been a great season for some producers. Mike Farrell, Director of the Uihlein Maple Research Station in Lake Placid, knows maple syrup. 5,500 maples are tapped at Uihlien. You might say this is his season. Farrell studies the economic trends of maple syrup, how climate change is affecting the season and promotes maple syrup production in the region. He spoke with Todd Moe.

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Lake Placid nursing home fined for shoddy care, patient death
(06/18/09) A nursing home in Lake Placid was fine last year more than $75,000 for shoddy care. The news was first disclosed yesterday in a report in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. Adirondack Medical Center paid the fine after state officials investigated the death of an elderly resident at the Uihlein nursing home. As Brian Mann reports, state officials also found serious health and safety concerns at a second nursing home run by AMC in Tupper Lake.

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