In Lake Placid, short-term rental owners feel ‘vilified’
By Leigh Hornbeck
October 3, 2022
Tensions grow as community weighs options on updating STR regulations
90 miles in a canoe, a lifetime in boats
By Leigh Hornbeck
November 11, 2021
First-time racer Leigh Hornbeck shares her thoughts on the three-day Adirondack Canoe Classic boat race.
Before “forever wild”
By Leigh Hornbeck
June 6, 2021
Putnam photo collection from 1800s shows frontier lives and clear-cut forests
For love of wild country
By Leigh Hornbeck
January 11, 2021
After two decades of advocating for the park, Diane Fish prepares to retire.
Portrait of a community
By Leigh Hornbeck
January 2, 2021
North Creek’s decade-long art project reflects shared vision
Grandkids on the Trail
By Leigh Hornbeck
November 3, 2020
Second edition hiking volume reaches new generations, routes By Leigh Hornbeck Rose Rivezzi and David Trithart were the parents of two young boys when they wrote the first edition of their “Kids on the Trail!” guidebook for hiking with children in the Adirondacks. This summer, they celebrated the arrival of the second edition with their…
Great Sacandaga markers pay tribute to what was lost
By Leigh Hornbeck
October 12, 2020
Fifteen new blue and yellow historical markers will soon serve as reminders of the places lost to the Great Sacandaga Lake when the reservoir was created in 1930.
How the Adirondacks helped shape a justice
By Leigh Hornbeck
October 4, 2020
She was raised in Brooklyn and went to camp every summer from 1937 to 1951—from the time she was 4 until she was 18.
‘Finding a Woman’s Place’
By Leigh Hornbeck
June 23, 2020
Book explores bonds forged at an Adirondack feminist collective during the 70s and early 80s in rural Warren County
Wanted: Doctors who love mountains
By Leigh Hornbeck
June 5, 2020
The Adirondacks could face a shortage as a generation of adventurous family doctors retires.