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New student enrollment is up 30% at Paul Smith’s College

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PAUL SMITHS — Paul Smith’s College President Dan Kelting and Executive Vice President of Advancement and Enrollment Kathy Bonavist were “giddy” on Monday, Sept. 8. The numbers for their student census had just come in and they showed that the private college started its fall semester ...

New York State DEC Forest Rangers Week in Review

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RAY BROOK — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations, and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate, and extract lost, ...

‘I can do hard things’

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KEENE — Frances “Franny” Stone trained for this past weekend’s hike in the High Peaks Wilderness with her daughter, Meghan, all summer in their hometown of Meadville, Pennsylvania. There’s not much by way of hiking hills in the area, so they would get up at 5 a.m. to go up and ...

VISITING LAKE PLACID: Holcomb Pond: The trail less traveled

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LAKE PLACID — I was only a minute into the hike and five spider webs had already brushed across my face. I quickly realized this was a trail less traveled. It had likely been some time since anyone else had made the trek back to Holcomb Pond. Given the jam-packed trailheads now ...

Essex County seeks to amend state occupancy tax law

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ELIZABETHTOWN — The Essex County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution in August seeking to remove the section of state tax law that designates the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism as the mandated contractor for tourism promotion. Supporters of the resolution say the county should ...