ESSEX — Essex Food Hub has been awarded a $100,000 grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm to School Grant program. EFH is one of 103 awardees across the nation and among just 16 selected in the northeast region. Funds from the grant will be used over the next 12 months to ...

KEENE VALLEY — Dar Williams adjusted her guitar strap and microphone stand as the auditorium lights dimmed around her. A spotlight appeared. The audience fell silent and still as she played the opening notes of her song “Today and Everyday.” This is typical for Williams; she has ...

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid High School students will take the stage for their fourth annual Broadway Showcase at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29. The event features selections from the movies “La La Land” and “Pocahontas” and the musicals “Tick, Tick ... Boom!” and “You’re a ...

SARANAC LAKE — What happens when the world goes right? New York Times best-selling author Neal Shusterman explored this question and discussed his work with hundreds of middle and high school students Friday, Sept. 22 at an event in the Harrietstown Town Hall hosted by the Adirondack Center ...

SARANAC LAKE — Tri-Lakes schools are offering more free meals to students this year than they did before the coronavirus pandemic. But while school administrators say they’re willing to pay out-of-pocket to keep kids better fed, they’re all hoping New York state picks up the bill, as ...

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Central School District Board of Education members deliberated the benefits and drawbacks of electric school buses during their Sept. 19 meeting as the deadline for a state-mandated shift to zero-emission buses looms. Board member Colleen Locke, who is also the ...