It was bound to happen one of these days. State agencies have been playing a little fast and loose with New York’s constitutional protections for the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves for a long time. The state consistently lets itself off the hook for violations it would punish a ...

Be careful what you wish for. That’s the main thing we want to say to our North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, who is emerging as the likely candidate to replace Rep. Liz Cheney as the House Republican conference chair. We congratulate her. She is smart and has ...

Every year for our Community Resource Directory, the Lake Placid News and Adirondack Daily Enterprise name a volunteer of the year for the Tri-Lakes region. In March, we announced that Stephanie Gubelin of Lake Placid is our 2021 volunteer of the year. Yet the village of Lake Placid and town ...

For local town and village officials wringing their hands, trying to decide whether to opt out of issuing licenses for marijuana sales and on-site consumption in their municipalities, we have three words. Take the money. It’s not dirty money. As of March 31, recreational marijuana is ...

It’s pretty dry out there — so dry that a forecast of rain early this week dried up. National Weather Service meteorologists in Burlington, Vermont, still say our area might get rain Wednesday through Friday — possibly mixed with snow Friday — but in a tweet Monday they said it probably ...

When writing the headline for Naj Wikoff’s column this week, our editor was faced with writing a shortened title for “Keene residents.” Based on what residents are called in the communities of Keene, New Hampshire and Keene, Texas, we settled on “Keenites.” But is that right? Could ...