Lake-Clear News

Just before Christmas, Chris Knight ran a fascinating piece in the Adirondack Enterprise looking at the future of the Lake Clear airport.

The American school trend is toward budget-cutting, class-size boosters. While smaller class sizes are preferred because they mean more time with the teacher for each student, larger class sizes are the reality for many as the nation's fiscal belt squeezes out resources.

The battle is on to see who will provide area airports with daily commuter service.

Comment on this story FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009 Plattsburgh and Saranac Lake are seeing competition among regional airlines to serve the airports in both communities.

There's been a lot of ink spilled the last few weeks about what turns people off about the "conservative" message carried by Doug Hoffman and Sarah Palin.

The Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York Council Board of Directors is reviewing the fate of the council's three large residential camps in the Adirondack Park.

The closed school at Lake Clear is approved for lease to Adirondack Medical Center as billing offices.

Raymond Dora, who has taught at Lake Clear School for 36 of the school's 54 years, stands with some of the students in the final third-grade class: William J. Bentz III, Abraham Newton, Keegan Dukett, Sawyer Chase, Casey Sturgeon, Jeffrey Baker, Savanna Nicole Donaldson and Hanna Gochenay.