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Meet the Depot Theatre team finding “fabulous” scripts, actors for shows that are a “darn good time”

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Learn more about NYSEG Smart Meters

NYSEG has scheduled an open house at the Plattsburgh Town Hall on Wednesday July 16, 2025, from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM. No registration is required to attend, and all residents and business owners are welcome to attend anytime during the specified timeframe. Informational displays will be set up to provide details on the program. […]

North Country Honor Flight Named 2025 Spirit of Ianelli Honoree

Plattsburgh, Saturday, July 12 – The Sunrise Rotary Mayor’s Cup Regatta & Festival Committee has named the North Country Honor Flight as its 2025 Spirit of Ianelli Award honoree. Sunrise Rotary Club President Wanda Carroll presented the award to Barrie Finnegan, Executive Director of the North Country Honor Flight, along with other members of the […]

Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism releases 2024 leisure travel study results

Click here for the Adirondack Almanac story 

DEC Reminds Hikers Goodman Mountain Trail Remains Closed

Trail Closed to Protect Public Safety due to the presence of a bull moose The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today reminds hikers the temporary closure of the Goodman Mountain trail in the Horseshoe Lake Wild Forest in the town of Tupper Lake, remains in effect, DEC staff, accompanied by the New […]

Port Kent: A virtual walking tour on Wednesday, July 16

Abigail Eagan: The North Country’s First Female Eagle Scout

July 12, 2025 – West Chazy, N Y – Family, friends, community leaders, and members of Scouting America Troop 8039 gathered today at the North Country Veterans Association for the Eagle Scout Court of Honor ceremony for Abigail Eagan. A former Girl Scout, Abigail joined Troop 8039 in 2014 and has worked diligently to develop […]

First Micro Bird bus officially completed at new Plattsburgh manufacturing facility

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Gillibrand says rescission likely to pass, cutting public media funding

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Hochul unveils impacts of Trump’s “Big Beautiful” legislation

All New York’s GOP Congressional Representatives Voted for These Cuts July 11, 2035 – Gov. Hochul News Release – Governor Kathy Hochul today released new data showing the devastating impacts of the Republicans’ “Big Ugly Bill” on New York State. The data show the enormous scale of the recently-enacted law, including draconian cuts to Medicaid, […]

New York ranger found dead after 8 days missing: Petition demands safety reform

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North Country at Work: protecting the region’s soil and water

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Here’s what $1 trillion in US Medicaid cuts will mean in the North Country

“The cuts to Medicaid will have an outsized impact on the North Country, where 28% of the population relies on the federal program for health insurance. Local healthcare groups and officials have warned that Medicaid cuts will have devastating impacts here in the region.” Click here for the NCPR story 

Revolutionary War Training Camps for teens

Four free camps for boys and girls from 12 to 16 In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Clinton County Historical Association in conjunction with the Kent-Delord House Museum is excited to announce that we are offering four Revolutionary War Training Camps at the Kent-Delord House Museum during the months of […]

Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau Launches BattleofValcour.com

Your Front Row Seat to 1776 and the region’s commemoration for America250th Plattsburgh, NY – America is turning 250, and there’s no better place to celebrate than the Adirondack Coast a region that helped shape our nation’s story! From the Revolutionary War to the Battle of Plattsburgh in 1814, this historic stretch of Lake Champlain […]

COMMENTARY: Rescues, Roads, and Wilderness

Times Union article reported that two rangers argue that their job is made more difficult by state policy, chiefly the state’s decision to render old roads impassible to motorized vehicles.  Click here for the Adirondack Almanac story 

Homesteading and Woodworking Weekend at the Babbie Museum

Assemblyman Billy Jones: Statement on Big Beautiful Bill

”I am deeply concerned with how the Big Beautiful Bill will impact the North Country. Without a doubt, our medical system will suffer under the cuts in this bill. Our rural hospitals, nursing homes, community health centers, disability support services, and all other local healthcare providers will bear the brunt of the cuts. Even those […]

Strawhatters performing in Peru on Tuesday, July 16

CVPH Blood Drive Drive in Peru on Monday July 7

Peru – CVPH Donor Center Blood Brive, Monday, July 7,  from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at St. Augustine’s Parish Center, 3030 Main St. in Peru. The blood collected by the Donor Center provides more than 95% of the blood used at CVPH and is used to supply other hospitals in Elizabethtown, Malone, Massena, Saranac […]

Canadian Visitation Down, Local Businesses Respond: Adirondack Coast Survey Reveals Impact and Action

Plattsburgh, NY – July 2, 2025 – As the summer tourism season gets underway, a recent survey conducted by the Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau, a division of the North Country Chamber of Commerce, reveals that local businesses continue to feel the ripple effects of reduced Canadian travel to the region. This survey, completed in June, […]

CVPH Family Medicine Employee Candace Leduc Receives BEE Award

Recognized for minimizing patient impact as staff battled illness PLATTSBURGH, NY (7/3/2025) – It was a perfect storm of sickness. The flu and COVID-19 ran through the team like a wildfire as the clinic was at its busiest caring for patients fighting the same bugs. The front desk and call center staff were particularly hard hit. […]

A visit to Keeseville’s new waterfront park

On June 3, the town of Au Sable and Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) cut the ribbon to Keeseville’s new waterfront park.  celebrating one of many of Keeseville’s recent downtown developments.  Click here more information on the park’s history  new waterfront park

July 4, 2025 American Flags on beautiful display in Peru, NY at 6:45 a.m.

Celebrate the Great Outdoors at The Wild Center’s Get Outside Festival, July 3–6

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