LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Village Board of Trustees passed its $7.2 million budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year on Tuesday, June 25 following an unattended public hearing. The $7,223,058 budget is a $558,718, or 8.38%, increase from last year’s $6.6 million budget. The majority of the ...

WILMINGTON — The Wilmington Town Council on Tuesday, June 11 passed a law amending its short-term vacation rental law following a contentious public hearing, a split vote and 14 months of debate. The new law caps the number of STRs in Wilmington at 150, mandates STR inspections every other ...

LAKE PLACID — With new cannabis tax revenue pouring in, the North Elba Town Council is now setting up the parameters of a local grant program that will allow qualified applicants to tap into those funds. During the council’s regular meeting, councilors discussed crafting a new cannabis ...

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid attorney Amy Fisher Quinn ended her bid for Essex County judge on Thursday, June 6 following her appointment to the New York state Court of Claims. As of press time, the Essex County Democratic Committee had not announced who will run for the judgeship in Quinn’s ...

GABRIELS — A constitutional amendment to allow the sale of the abandoned Camp Gabriels state prison in Brighton took the first step in a long journey for the fifth time with the state Senate’s passage of local Sen. Dan Stec’s bill on Wednesday, May 22. The amendment to grant an ...

ALBANY — The state Legislature passed a $237 billion state budget almost three weeks late on Saturday, April 20, following five budget extensions and a cyberattack on April 17 that slowed the drafting process. The budget is supposed to be passed by April 1, which is the beginning of the ...