The Adirondack Food System Network (AFSN) hosted the biggest installment of the Food Justice Summit to date in February, a gathering that brought together over 180 individuals representing more than 100 organizations at The Wild Center in Tupper Lake. This event drew people from throughout ...

Please read this with an open mind. Regardless of political beliefs, this issue affects us all. Especially our children and grandchildren. The U.S. national debt has surpassed $37 trillion and continues to rise. As Americans, we must decide: do we continue this unsustainable path or take ...

In the Adirondacks, nonprofits are not merely organizations — they are the bridges that span the gaps between our public institutions (municipalities, counties, state agencies, and schools) and our region’s families. As leaders of the region’s two largest grantmakers, the Cloudsplitter ...

The majestic trees guarding the North Elba Cemetery in Lake Placid have to come down. They are old and diseased. Some of the trees have already fallen on their own damaging graves. According to the article in The Lake Placid News of April 28, 1916, the trees were planted by the Lake Placid ...

“I smoked cigarettes only for two years in my 20s. It felt much harder to quit nine months of e-cigarette use at age 35. The NY Quitline was instrumental in providing support; I wouldn’t have been able to become tobacco-free on my own.” The Heart Network was — forgive the pun — ...

It was exactly 45 years ago this month when the Miracle on Ice occurred. I was there, and this morning I took out the sizable file of memories I’ve saved for all these years, something I do pretty much every Feb. 22. Old newspapers, copies of Sports Illustrated, an official 1980 Lake ...