The bedrock of any community is its people — young, old and everyone in between — and the ideas they have for their community — to make it a better place to live and visit for current and future generations. As villages around the region plan their annual community days, now is an ideal ...

Memorial Day 1942 - Memorial Day this year will mean more to us. Because on May 30, 1942, it brought home to us the fact that our men and boys are again lying in wars. Our memories might have become a bit hazy in the intervening years since the first world war and few remember much of ...

On a recent episode of the Northern Light podcast by North Country Public Radio, Ken Tingley, a former editor of the Glens Falls Post-Star, presented this terrifying situation: “I found out this year that the town of Queensbury, where I live, is going to increase taxes 56%. That’s an ...

Local residents have the power to help monarch butterflies and other pollinators as they continue to struggle to survive in this overdeveloped world of ours. In 2011, AdkAction, based in Keeseville, began teaching the public about how to help monarch butterflies — by designing and ...

We understand when town of North Elba Supervisor Derek Doty says that it’s “unattainable” at this time to pay for an ambitious plan to upgrade the 1980 Olympic flame cauldron site. We could hear in his voice that the prospect of raising $1 million or more to develop a “welcome ...

Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee President J. Bernard Fell gave a passionate speech on Feb. 13, 1980, during the opening ceremony of the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. A recording of this speech is usually played when the Olympic flame cauldron is re-lit for special ...