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The Affordable Connectivity Program was designed to help lower-income households afford their internet bill, but it is running out of funding soon.

Pandemic highlights broadband gaps in Adirondacks Where corporations fall short, neighbors and smaller companies have gotten inventive Tim Rowland Adirondack Explorer FacebookTwitterEmail Janelle Schwartz works at Craigardan, an Elizabethtown-area nonprofit where employees must ration their use of satellite internet. (Mike Lynch/Adirondack Explorer)Adirondack Explorer ESSEX COUNTY — To Mike Hopmeier, it felt like an old-time country barn-raising.  Hopmeier is president of a northern Virginia...

State scales back on salt study Amended legislation will restrict public disclosures that could increase liability Ry Rivard Adirondack Explorer FacebookTwitterEmail Road salt is seen in the shed as Department of Transportation workers get snowplows ready for potential snow expected early tomorrow morning Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 in Latham, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union SARANAC LAKE — State lawmakers recently scaled back a study of road salt pollution in th...