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Free Affordable Care Act Workshops Being Offered
New federal healthcare law will soon change the way businesses and employees obtain health insurance. To help farmers, small business owners and individuals learn about the Affordable Care Act, the...
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Report: Adirondack Living Easier Than Most Places
Recent pieces (here and here) in the Adirondack Almanack stressed the importance of placing the Adirondack Park experience and condition in a national context, especially with the rest of rural...
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‘Here One Day’ Movie Screening at LPCA and The Grange
Though most of us don’t talk about experiences regarding suicide, Producer and Film Director Kathy Leichter is bringing her film, Here One Day to Lake Placid and Whallonsburg. She hopes that her own...
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Healing Soul Wounds At Wiawaka Holiday House
The Adirondacks have a long tradition as a place for healing, the most prominent example being the thousands who came to “take the cure” for tuberculosis at the Trudeau Sanatorium in Saranac Lake...
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Paddle Flotilla Seeks World Record On Fourth Lake
In August, 2013 a flotilla in Suttons Bay, Michigan set a new Guinness world record for the “Largest Raft of canoes and kayaks” at 2,099, breaking the record of 1,902 set in on Fourth Lake in Inlet two...
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Climbing The 46 High Peaks For Suicide Prevention
Suicide, depression and the effects of both are challenging and frightening subjects to discuss. I know. I was in my early 20s when I stumbled upon a friend during her attempted suicide. What...
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Ed Kanze: The Nature of Exercise
My mother always told my sisters and me as she bounced us outside in all kinds of weather that exercise was good for us. She was more right than she knew.Listen here to my thoughts on the virtues of...
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St. Lawrence Co Native: A Story With Some Teeth
Deformities like cleft palate once befuddled all dentists and surgeons, none of whom could find reliable, workable solutions to those truly vexing problems. Around the world, tens of thousands of...
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Rabies: A Deadly Adirondack Virus
The recent barrage of publicity regarding ebola has focused everyone’s attention on this particularly deadly virus, however, the relatively isolated nature of the Adirondacks makes our region a most...
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Researchers Finding Lyme Disease in Adirondacks
Researchers from Paul Smith’s College are finding Lyme Disease in ticks and small mammals in the Adirondack Park.Paul Smith’s College professor Lee Ann Sporn is heading her college’s involvement in a...
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Dave Gibson: Finding Hope For Wild Places
As I look out on the political landscape this week, I can give in to despair at the sour mood, the anger and the apathy.Or I can think of this Wilderness 50th anniversary year, which gives us hope....
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Conference Focuses on Growing Wellness Economy
A one day summit planned for Thursday hopes to give local organizations a leg-up in the growing “wellness economy”. Organizers say that those involved in outdoor recreation, tourism, health, arts and...
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Tick Talk: Lyme Disease in the Adirondack Park
Ticks carrying Lyme Disease are in the Adirondacks. Join The Wild Center and Paul Smith’s College at 1 pm on Saturday, December 6th, for a forum on Lyme Disease featuring five regional scientists and...
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The Hydrofracking Report In Historical Perspective
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision in December to ban the use of hydrofracking in New York State was politically astute. The governor asserted he is merely following the recommendations in a new report...
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Remembering LGBTQ Activist Andrea Adams
Andrea Adams, founder and former director of The Bridge and a local LGBTQ activist, passed away peacefully at her home in South Glens Falls on January 22. Her loving partner Dennis Belden was by her...
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Avoiding Ticks In The Adirondack Region
Summer should be a carefree season full of picnics and swimming, a time for hikes and barbeques on the deck, not a time to fret about tick-borne illnesses. As few as ten years ago it was unusual to...
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Will Rogers Memorial Hospital Film Premieres Oct 10
“Hotel Hope”, a new film about the history of Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in Saranac Lake, where tuberculosis victims from the entertainment industry came for treatment, will premiere on Saturday at...
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Owens, Paine Usher Changes At Adirondack Foundation
Former North Country Congressman Bill Owens has returned to the Adirondack Foundation’s Board of Trustees. At the same time, the foundation has bid farewell to longtime Trustee Peter Paine of...
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Holiday Hookup? 40,000 Free Endangered Species Condoms
With the holiday season in full swing, the Center for Biological Diversity is distributing 40,000 free Endangered Species Condoms to encourage people to invite wildlife into holiday celebrations by...
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Applications Sought for Adirondack Foundation Grants
The Adirondack Foundation is now accepting applications for grants from its Generous Acts Fund. “In its first year of grant-making, the Generous Acts Fund awarded 31 grants ranging from $250 to $10,000...
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