Thank you Sue Dyer and your daughter, Kathy, for resuscitating the historic Hanmer Races. Sue is simply continuing to do ...

With summer here, I find myself getting grilled by families asking about safety precautions they should be taking when they barbecue outside. I don’t want any backyard fireworks to occur, so let me ...

In my column two weeks ago, I wrote about my God-given talent of losing everything either not stashed in my safety deposit box or pop-riveted to my dupa. So now let me present the latest episode of ...

The spending bill that passed the House on Thursday contains large cuts to Medicaid, something that rural areas including the North Country are increasingly reliant on. While supporters of the bill ...

Tupper Lake Field Day is taking place on Saturday, July 19, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The free event, organized by the Town of Tupper Lake Recreation Department, features a parade, touch-a-truck, vendors ...

In June, a resident of Ticonderoga notified the Essex County Health Department about a woodchuck that was acting extremely aggressively, trying to attack family members and lingering around the ...

With the Fourth of July coming up on Friday, local towns each have planned events to celebrate the ratification of the ...

After almost two years of construction, work on restoring Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau’s historic former home and office on ...

A product used on farms across New York, produced at a facility in Chateaugay, was nearly banned for use on agricultural land ...

Assemblyman Billy Jones said Trudeau Institute was a “no brainer” for the state Historic Business Preservation Registry. When ...

Shortly after midnight on June 18, the 2025 state legislative session was gavelled to a close. That meant, for the second year in a row, a bill seeking to implement and expand the findings of the ...

The other rainy morning at a local coffee shop an elderly man held the door for me. Whitehaired and slightly stooped, we exchanged smiles. As I walked out, a woman passed me going in. Out of the ...