ELIZABETHTOWN — In celebration of the 55th anniversary of Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, the Adirondack Council is awarding $22,500 in micro-grants to 13 local farms and food producers who are working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while improving the long-term sustainability of their ...

WILMINGTON — Whiteface Mountain General Manager Aaron Kellett was all smiles last weekend. Between the International Pond Skimming Competition and the Apple Butter Open, which he and members of his family took part in, it was a busy weekend of festivities for the ski center — and it ...

LAKE PLACID — There’s a lot about maple syrup production that lies outside human control — the snowpack, the coldest temperatures, the speed of the spring thaw. And so, when it comes to maximizing syrup yields, local producers need to focus on the things they can control. This is a ...

LAKE PLACID — While April may not be the most popular hiking time of the year in the region, it remains one of the most precarious. That’s because trail conditions are highly variable and can change on a dime — from relatively dry stretches of dirt or gravel to ankle-deep mud to ...

LAKE PLACID — Following last week’s icy escapade up to the 2,939-foot Mount Van Hoevenberg, I decided to play it low and scout out a trail that stuck below the elevation where the ice began cropping up then. Despite my best efforts, I was not completely spared from the ice — a ...

LAKE PLACID — Tuesday, April 15 marked one of the most visible local harbingers that spring is in swing: the ice went out on Mirror Lake. This season’s ice-in date was Dec. 13, 2024, making for a total of 123 days of ice cover — inclusive of the ice-in date and exclusive of the ice-out ...