Residents are trying to stop the sale of a Lake Placid mobile home park
(8/6/2025)
Some residents fear new owners of Cascade Acres will raise rents on home lots and eventually redevelop the site into condos.
Brian Mann grew up in Alaska, where he fell in love with public radio. In 1999, Brian moved to the Adirondacks and helped launch NCPR's news bureau at Paul Smiths College. "I love the chemistry of water and mountains," Brian says. "But I'm also pretty crazy about village life in the North Country. It's the kind of place where you know your neighbors." Brian lives in the Adirondacks. He's also a reporter for NPR and writes regularly for regional magazines, including Adirondack Life and the Adirondack Explorer. E-mailTen years after the Dannemora prison escape, a look back at the manhunt
(6/7/2025)
Photos from Adirondack photographer Nancie Battaglia, who documented the mayhem and manhunt following the Dannemora prison escape in June 2015.
Running Up That Hill... on this episode of Bookmarks
(8/5/2022)
Hiking, wilderness, and self-empowerment with authors Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, Riley Sager, and Lisa Gardner
The Perfect Escape
(7/25/2022)
A North Country Bookmarks web exclusive conversation with Leah Konen
Bookmarks: A Bird's Eye View of Parenting
(5/6/2022)
In coversation with authors Chandler Baker, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, and Brit Bennet.
Former NCPR reporter Brian Mann is covering the Beijing Olympics for NPR
(2/11/2022)
Former NCPR reporter Brian Mann is covering the Olympics for NPR. We check in with him on what it's like in Beijing and the moving stories of the...
North Country at Work: Akwesasne singer-songwriter Theresa Bear Fox
(9/24/2021)
Akwesasne singer-songwriter Theresa Bear Fox has been making music in both Mohawk and English for twenty years. She says that melodies started coming...
Some North Country Trump supporters are ready for fresh start with Biden
(1/21/2021)
"I'm glad President Trump is on his way out; I wish the new guy all the best, and I'm a...
A year unlike any other: The sorrow (and some joy) of 2020 in the North Country
(12/31/2020)
The coronavirus has upended every aspect of our lives in the North Country. We revisited the...
North Country Holiday Cheer: decorations, food, and humor
(12/22/2020)
We've been asking the NCPR audience what you're up to for the winter holidays, and you're getting...
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