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In line with Governor Cuomo’s directive for New York State to PAUSE amidst the COVID19 pandemic and Adirondack Mountain Club Executive Director Michael Barrett’s urging to”hike locally and individually,” the Northville Placid Trail Challenge is suspended until further notice. This action was taken by the ADK Schenectady Chapter, which manages the challenge. While the trail remains…
A number of businesses are closing in response to the coronavirus, and Hotel Saranac is the latest. The hotel hopes to reopen later in the year.
By Melissa Hart
Saranac Lake resident Gail Brill wanted to do something to help out during the COVID-19 crisis. So she put her creative skills to work, mobilizing a team of sewers scattered around the Tri-lakes area. They’ve been keeping busy sewing and distributing cloth masks to frontline workers around the region. Read about it in the Adirondack…
By Mike Lynch
The state Department of Environmental Conservation offered recommendations for using trailhead registers during the COVID-19 outbreak.
An Adirondack Park forest ranger has tested positive for the coronavirus. Gov. Andrew Cuomo looks at hospital partnerships between upstate and downstate.
“Most of us want to get here because we feel safer and because we don't want to get stranded for months someplace else."
By Melissa Hart
Some Adirondack-area distilleries are switching gears and turning their product into hand sanitizer.
The hospital has turned the old ambulatory surgery unit that had already been undergoing renovations into a temporary inpatient facility, increasing capacity for coronavirus patients by 50 percent and adding another four ICU beds.
DEC personnel from across agency divisions and regions statewide are supporting the State's response to COVID-19.
The Essex County Board of Supervisors had a message for second home-owners and visitors to the Adirondacks on Tuesday: Stay away.