Adirondack News

Coffee Shop owner says 7 to 10 people were looking for jobs daily, taking too much of staff's time.

Like I said yesterday, The Adirondacks is bear country. And just yesterday after I posted about my hunt for libraries , I stumbled upon this bear, right outside the Long Lake Library, located in Long Lake, NY.

Posted on Monday, July 06, 2009 at 4:13 a.m. A bus rolled onto its side and plowed into a rock ledge early Sunday on a highway in the Adirondacks in northeastern New York, killing a woman pinned underneath and hurting nine others, authorities said.

Associated Press - July 5, 2009 10:53 AM ET LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. - Authorities say a bus has rolled onto its side and plowed into a rock ledge in the Adirondacks in northeastern New York, killing a woman pinned underneath.

They've been serving cheeseburgers and root beer floats for 32 years at the A&W Restaurant on Route 9 in Lake George, where patrons can place orders from their parked cars.

An upstate New York teenager is among the nearly two dozen people awarded Carnegie medals for heroism.

There are many excellent new natural history books I recommend for summer reading.

The Caroga Historical Museum will open its Adirondack Trappers exhibit at 1 p.m. today.

Adirondack Museum, New York invites everyone to join Adirondack Fabric & Fiber Arts Festival starting on September 12, 2009.

New York City actors Adam Armstrong, Amy Justman, Will Reynolds and Dana Steingold are the young New Yorkers of Adam Gwon's musical Ordinary Days , beginning June 24 at the Adirondack Theatre Festival in upstate New York.

He climbed his first mountain at the age of just 6. His grandfather had a camp on Third Lake in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, "an easy walk from" Bald Mountain's trailhead.

Top government scientists on Tuesday warned that climate change already is wreaking devastating changes on the United States and will threaten Adirondack Mountain forests, the Atlantic coast and the Midwest.

On a clear day you can see to Canada, Lake Champlain, or Vermont from the top of Whiteface Mountain.

A Hudson River-Black River Regulating District board member who has spoken out against revisions to the regulating district's proposed lake-access permit rules was informed Wednesday he is no longer on the board.

J. Courtney Sullivan's "Commencement" is one of this year's most inviting summer novels.

Another pressure point for Adirondack communities is their rapidly aging populations.

Adirondack residents are indeed relatively poor, aging and undereducated and the area is hemorrhaging local youth, or so are the findings of the Adirondack Park Regional Assessment Project which was released this week by the Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages.

Karl Scully's family was evacuated five times during the revolution in the late 1990s that transformed the African country Zaire into the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The state Office of Children & Family Services on Friday notified 39 full-time employees at the Tryon Residential Center that they either will be or may be laid off June 30.

Lawyers have begun to file papers in a class-action lawsuit brought by eight Adirondack counties and numerous municipalities against the Adirondack Park Agency, disputing new shoreline setback regulations.