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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 […]

Norsk Titanium secures new contracts

Customers are U.S. Gov. contractors, one from DOD Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Multiple crews responding to fire on Leggett Road in Champlain

Click here for the MYNBC5 story 

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 

IKEA is coming to Destiny USA in Syracuse

Click here for the Syracuse.com 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 […]

Facing declining enrollment and financial headwinds, Burlington’s Champlain College reshapes its academic programs

Click here for the VTDigger story 

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

Stefanik Votes for President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill

Elise Stefanik News Release of July 3, 3025 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Republican Chairwoman Elise Stefanik released the following statement: “Promises made, promises kept. I was proud to stay in Congress to vote to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill to deliver on President Trump’s historic mandate to enact the largest tax cut in […]

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

July, 4, 2025, Peru, NY – “As American as American Pie”

Homily, Rev. William Reamer, St. Augustine’s Church, Peru, NY, 8 a.m. Mass, July 4, 2025  As American as apple pie, we say proudly. Apple pie is what we’re all about-it’s the symbol of American bounty and prosperity. But, in reality, there’s nothing at all American about apple pie. In her book, The American Plate: A […]

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

Click here for the Adirondack Explorer story 

July 2, 2025, Ausable Point, Peru, NY, 6:45- 6:55 a.m.

July 2, 2025, Ausable Point, Peru, NY, 6:45- 6:55 a.m.

July 2, 2025, Ausable Point, Peru, NY, 6:28 a.m.

Peru, NY, Union Rd., 6:17 a.m., July 2, 2025

An Open Secret’: Sackets Harbor ICE Raid Shows the ‘Reality’ of New York Dairy Country

Click here for the New York Focus April 9 Story 

Lawsuits seek demotion of Plattsburgh police chief, release of investigation

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Sweet Treats’ new owner enjoys offering customers new concoctions

By John T Ryan Peru, NY, July 1, 2025. When spring’s first warm day arrives, there’s one place in Peru where you’re virtually guaranteed to find a large crowd – Sweet Treats Ice Cream. Since opening in the early 1980s, the shop has been a local and regional favorite. On April 24, its local ownership […]

CVPH Nurse Honored for Care of Mother, Baby After Life-Threatening Birth

Jamie Eagan, RN Receives DAISY Award PLATTSBURGH, NY (7/1/2025) – A normally beautiful moment bringing a baby into the world became life-threatening in the operating room. The newborn was healthy, but the new mother was losing a lot of blood. Jamie Eagan, RN, a member of the labor and delivery team at University of Vermont […]