Adirondack News

A flurry of fancifully painted canoes could be on display throughout Lake George Village as soon as this summer, if a municipal trustee's brainstorm is realized.

The State University of New York enrolled 25,458 more students in the fall 2009 semester than it did one year ago, bringing the total enrollment number to 464,981, the largest ever in SUNY history.

NEWCOMB, N.Y. - A recovery team lowered from a helicopter removed two bodies from the wreckage of a single-engine Piper Cherokee 140 that crashed on a remote Adirondack peak, state police said Tuesday.

Friday afternoon, Warren County budget officer Kevin Geraghty had his office door shut, and a paper tape from his adding machine extended from his desk to the floor.

A lot of people hereabouts owe a great debt to John Sheehan, and most don't even know who he is.

Artists and writers have long tried to capture the savage beauty and majesty of the Adirondack Mountains, but now a group of authors has tried to capture another of the Adirondacks' traits: mystery.

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Cub Scouts from Ticonderoga Pack 72 took part in a field trip to the Barton Mines recently.

Albany County Public Health Service : Albany County received a new shipment of H1N1 vaccines this week and will be sent to OB/GYNs and pediatricians.

Bill Owens, the Democratic Party candidate, Dierdre Scozzafava, the Republican Party candidate and Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate for New York's 23rd Congressional District.

Voters in New York will be asked to decide a pair of amendments to the state constitution when they head to the polls Nov.

During a five-county tour Friday of the North Country, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand talked with local community leaders, focusing primarily on rural economic development initiatives.

The Nov. meeting of the Adirondack Mountain Garden Club will take place on Tuesday, Nov.

The hospital where Douglas L. Hoffman serves on the finance committee sought and received a federal earmark - a practice he has opposed in his congressional campaign - to build a new primary health clinic.

Members of St. Lawrence County's Civil Service Employees Association Unit 8400 asked lawmakers not to fund outside agencies next year, in light of the union's unsettled contract and a proposed employee wage freeze.

Voters in New York will be asked to decide a pair of amendments to the state constitution when they head to the polls Nov.

I took a trip up north to find some extra Adirondack decor for my sister's wedding, which is just two weeks away.A She and her fiance have decided to go with an Adirondack-styleA wedding, and they are having it at a rustic resort my father designed in Brant Lake.

Traditionally, they are the most ignored slots on New York voting machines. It's not that no one cares about changes to the state's constitution.

The organizer of a global effort to fight climate change said Gov. David Paterson's raid of millions of dollars from a state climate change program sends "a terrible message" just weeks before world leaders meet to discuss the issue.

Two of the bridge's concrete piers had significant erosion below the water line, State Department of Transportation Regional Structural Engineer Thomas Hoffman said.