First a little background on Twin Mountain: Twin Mountain doesn’t really have an official name. However, it was given this name by the locals (I can only assume). I found this unofficially and suitably named peak in the Unit Management Plan for the Horseshoe Lake Wild Forest and it showed a ...
The days are getting longer and the clock has sprung forward. Tendrils of grass peak though the still snow-covered landscape. The ingredients for many springtime recipes haven’t quite arrived locally: peas, rhubarb, early lettuces, ramps, scapes, fiddlehead ferns. What is readily ...
LAKE PLACID — Week 1 of distance learning for three kids, remote working for two parents and extra attention for the dog — and the Cash family is together ... “still,” patriarch Daniel Cash said with a smile. During an outside interview with the Lake Placid News on Friday, March 20 ...
WILMINGTON — The expectation, the goal, the hope for Lake Placid Elementary School third-grade teacher Jenny Winch is that her 14 students will not forget the lessons they’ve learned so far this year while the school is closed for five weeks. To prevent the spread of the novel ...
WILMINGTON — The town of Wilmington celebrated its 35th annual community dinner Tuesday, March 10 at the Hungry Trout Restaurant and R.F. McDougall’s Pub. The event kicked off with a lively, informal cocktail party downstairs at the pub then moved upstairs for a relaxed sit-down ...
LAKE PLACID — Members of the Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department will look a little different while responding to calls during the COVID-19 crisis, LPVFD officials announced on Wednesday, March 25. Along with wearing normal turnout gear, firefighters may be seen wearing other personal ...
SARANAC LAKE — The first case of COVID-19 in Franklin County has been confirmed. The person has been under quarantine since this past Saturday, March 21, according to the county’s Emergency Operations Center. He or she — the county did not specify — is now in isolation quarantine ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo sounded his most dire warning yet about the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, saying the infection rate in New York is accelerating and the state could be as close as two weeks away from a crisis that sees 40,000 people in intensive care. Such a surge would ...
LAKE PLACID — The coronavirus is having a big economic impact on this tiny Adirondack village. For some long-time residents, the stillness and empty streets harken back to years ago, when Lake Placid wasn’t a year-round tourist destination. For others, this time is unprecedented. It’s ...
LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid News Editor Andy Flynn interviewed the Rev. John Yonkovig, parsor of St. Agnes Catholic Church, after the 5:30 p.m. Mass on Tuesday, March 17. Listen to a portion of this interview on the "We are Lake Placid" podcast from the Lake Placid News by visiting Apple ...
SARANAC LAKE — Two more cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Essex County, bringing the total number of confirmed cases up to three. Public health officials confirmed the two new cases, a husband and a wife, on Saturday afternoon. The couple has traveled recently and were ...
Here are all the known closures, cancellations and postponements due to the coronavirus in the greater Tri-Lakes area. This list is a work in progress. If you are involved with an event that has been canceled or postponed and is not listed here, share that news with the community by ...
LAKE PLACID — Signs going up this week at businesses, schools, tourist attractions, churches and government offices in this village help tell the story about the shutdown of these places due to concerns over the novel coronavirus pandemic. In order to prevent people from getting ...
LAKE PLACID — The Rev. John Yonkovig and his parishioners at St. Agnes Catholic Church could celebrate one more Mass Tuesday, March 17 — at 5:30 in the evening — just hours after Bishop Terry R. LaValley suspended all public gatherings for Mass, prayer, faith formation and certain ...
ALBANY (AP) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday he is ordering all workers in nonessential businesses to stay home and banning gatherings statewide. The Democratic governor took the dramatic actions as confirmed cases in New York climbed to more than 7,000. Cuomo reported that the state's ...
The Empire State Development website details essential functions in the state based on the March 18 Executive Order 202.6 (or as revised), which directed that all businesses and not-for-profit entities in New York state utilize, to the maximum extent possible, any telecommuting or work from ...
Many North Country houses of worship are canceling services to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. On Tuesday, March 17, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg, which covers more than 100 churches across northern New York, canceled all Masses until further notice. This included all ...
New Yorkers will need to get their meals and drinks — even alcoholic ones — to go for the foreseeable future. While owners of restaurants and bars in the Tri-Lakes area are laying off servers and preparing for economic struggles, they are trying to stay positive about the future. This ...
LAKE PLACID — With the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, we look back to Lake Placid’s history at the time of the Spanish influenza of 1918, the world’s deadliest pandemic that killed between 50 and 100 million people. As with most small towns across ...
SARANAC LAKE — The New York State Maple Producers’ Association Monday, March 16 announced the cancellation of its annual Maple Weekends, which were scheduled to take place the next two weekends, March 21-22 and March 28-29. “We had hoped to remain open to the public to continue that ...