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 ...

Soon after Ruth Hart was selected by the Essex County Bar Association to receive its annual Liberty Bell Award in the spring of 2016, the Lake Placid News asked her about the one community service project she was most proud of during her life in Lake Placid. She didn’t hesitate. “Well, ...

Our sincerest thanks to the New York State Legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul for including a local media tax credit in the Fiscal Year 2025 budget, which was passed on April 20. We’re optimistic it will help sustain our newsroom in Saranac Lake — for the Lake Placid News and Adirondack ...

For many people in this nation, the only way to see a real, live bear is to visit the zoo. For people in the Adirondacks, though, bears can turn up in our backyards, on a stroll in the woods or at a campsite. Many times, they’re just looking for food. State Department of Environmental ...

As predicted, thousands of people traveled to the Adirondack Park for a rare celestial event on Monday, April 8 — a total solar eclipse — and right on cue around 3:25 p.m., the Earth’s moon completely covered the sun and gave onlookers a memory to last a lifetime. Best of all, we ...

A few weeks ago, we told you about the newly formed Empire State Local News Coalition. The Lake Placid News and Adirondack Daily Enterprise are proud to be a members of this fast-growing group of over 150 New York local news outlets that have joined forces to protect local journalism across the ...