LAKE PLACID — Bracing for an atypical Adirondack mud season — with visitor numbers usually seen in the summer season — the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism and local communities have been preparing for the April 8 total solar eclipse for the past year. Now, the big event is just ...

LAKE PLACID — Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism Special Events Coordinator Buzzy Rickard is one of several employees at the Lake Placid Visitors Bureau answering phone calls for the temporary Eclipse Help Line this week. On Tuesday, April 2, he was trying to get the number — ...

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Essex County Board of Supervisors passed resolutions Monday, April 1 to close the county government on Monday, April 8 for the solar eclipse and issued a preemptive state of emergency as eclipse watchers are predicted to clog roadways around the region for this rare ...