LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Village Board of Trustees is considering taking out a bond for more than $12 million in upgrades to the village’s wastewater treatment plant. The village board scheduled a special meeting for 8 a.m. Friday, June 23 to pass a resolution announcing its intent to ...

Acting Essex County Clerk Chelsea Merrihew has earned the Republican line in this November’s county clerk race after a landslide victory in the county’s Republican primary on Tuesday. Merrihew garnered 951 votes to North Hudson town Supervisor Stephanie DeZalia’s 494 votes in the ...

LAKE PLACID — State legislators representing the Olympic Region reacted harshly to news Monday, June 26, that Amtrak is suspending its Adirondack Line train service from Albany to Montreal due to speed limitations in Canada. The news came almost three months after Amtrak reinstated the ...

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Community Beautification Association Director Cherise Bixler was kneeling on the sidewalk in front of Adirondack Decorative Arts & Crafts at 2512 Main St., planting herbs in the sun on Monday, May 22. What herbs? “Thyme,” she said. “Because the ...

LAKE PLACID — The list of candidates running for election in Essex County towns this November has been solidified with the passing of the final deadline for independent candidates to file their paperwork. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 7. The county’s primary election is on June 27. For ...

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Village Board of Trustees is proposing a $6.6 million budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year, and nobody had comments when a public hearing for the budget was held Monday evening, June 5. To cover the majority of its proposed $6,664,339 budget, the village board ...