NORTH HUDSON — When Forest Ranger Matthew Adams got 5:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 26 call to join the search for a missing hiker in the Dix Range, it didn’t take him long to realize that the straits were dire. A 58-year-old male from Mechanicville had been in the wilderness for two nights in a ...
SCHROON — A Florida man was found dead in a lean-to in the 44,400-acre Pharaoh Lakes Wilderness in southern Essex County on Tuesday, according to State Police. No foul play is suspected. State Police said they were notified of a missing hiker on the Crane Pond trail around 12:30 p.m. ...
KEENE — My heart pounded, not from the 2,500 or so feet we had ascended over the last couple of hours, but for the unnerving uncertainty that lay before me. Atop Mount Colden’s false peak, an exposed 4,500-foot knob 0.4 miles and a couple of hundred feet beneath the true summit, on ...
LAKE PLACID — Edward and Kay McCasland were honored Saturday, Feb. 21 at the Olympic Center during the Lake Placid Youth Athletic Association International Hockey Tournament for their steadfast contributions to youth hockey here over the decades. This year’s tournament was dedicated to the ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Imagine: A sprawling world-class city and a small mountain village with a rich Olympic history, separated by about five or six hours, collaborate and play host to a truly dual-host Winter Games. Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo pulled it off. And some wonder if ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — They chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” and a few openly wept Sunday, Feb. 22 at Lake Placid’s Olympic Center, the same building where the “Miracle on Ice” happened exactly 46 years earlier. In Ohio, some waved flags inside a packed bar. And in Florida, a man ...