NEW YORK — On Feb. 15, a statewide group of local news organizations, comprising over 100 local newspapers in New York, launched the Empire State Local News Coalition, a joint advocacy effort to advance a legislative package that would deliver long-term sustainability to the sector. The ...

JAY — Adirondack Life magazine recently named the winners of its annual photography contest. One overall grand prize was awarded, as well as nine awards in Landscape, Recreation, and Wildlife categories. Michael Morton, of Lyons Falls, took the grand-prize photograph, “Serenity ...

WILMINGTON — Last weekend, amid frigid winds, light flurries of snow and temperatures in the mid-teens, the Brownies and Juniors of Girl Scout Troops 04007 and 04269 sold hundreds of boxes of cookies at their stand along state Route 86. “I love cookie season,” said Lily Hobday, 10. ...

LAKE PLACID AND SARANAC LAKE — Three local small businesses are teaming up for a free, low-stakes monthly book club — and the first meeting already has a waitlist. The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid, The Book Nook in Saranac Lake and Origin Coffee Co. are the co-hosts of the newly-minted ...

LAKE PLACID — The Bookstore Plus will host a book signing event with local Illustrator and author Maxwell Eaton III from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17. Eaton is celebrating his newest picture book, “Looking For Peppermint: Or Life in the Forest.” In the book, a young girl shares ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce is planning to bring women throughout the Adirondacks together for a new Women in Business Conference called “Inspire & Ignite.” The conference will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 7 at the Paul Smith’s ...