Adirondack News

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.

One of the best pieces of news we have had in the past few months was the fact that the Residents Committee for the Protection of the Adirondacks and the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks were facing hard financial times.

If New York's Adirondack Mountains and the park that borrows their name can be called unique, then I think we can also call Nellie Staves unique.

While the nation's leaders were sparring in Washington D.C. about ways to fix the national health care system, dozens of state and local officials, upstate health care providers and community leaders gathered at the Warren County Courthouse to officially launch a new approach they said might help fix the growing crisis.

Just step outside and you can feel the change of season in the air, and with the cooler weather, fall also brings brilliant colors as the leaves begin to change.

The Towne Store in Schroon Lake will be hosting the artwork of Adirondack artist Lisa Ademson, an assortment of work titled "Experiments in Waves." The exhibit will open with a "Meet the Artist" Reception at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

In the wake of pending budget cuts, the Warren County's chief executive is retiring and taking over a similar position as Administrator at Adirondack Tri-County Nursing Home in North Creek.

Governor David A. Paterson today announced that the New York State Department of Transportation has applied for $11.6 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to improve high-speed rail service along the Empire Corridor between New York City and Niagara Falls.

State police are searching the area around an Adirondack lake for a central New York man who has been missing since the weekend.