SARANAC LAKE — Adirondack Center for Writing is now accepting submissions for its 12th annual Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency — a fully funded, two-week residency at the Lodge on Twitchell Lake near Big Moose. Submissions are due by May 19. Each fall, ACW welcomes six poets, ...

ALBANY — Now that it is spring, animals who have been in hibernation are starting to emerge. The state Department of Environmental Conservation reminded residents to take precautions to avoid human encounters with black bears, which are dangerous to both people and bears. Though skiddish ...

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 ...