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Press-Republican Ophelia Pope and Cody Brown of Plattsburgh enjoy some sool treats from Udder Delight Dairy Shop in Beekmantown Tuesday. The pair’s snacks included a ruby red cotton-candy-dipped cone, a dish of Brown’s favorite maple ice cream and a frosty blue raspberry snow cone. (Provided photo — Ben Rowe, Press-Republican) BEEKMANTOWN — Some seasonal food stops are emerging from winter hibernation, and Udder Delight Dairy Shop owner and operator Jerry Deno says he can fee...

10 years ago April 7, 2011: Tanning businesses may experience a slow burn if the state Senate passes its bill saying that no one under age 18 can use a tanning bed. Most local tanning salons, however, have a loophole for the pending bill: spray tanning. And at least one local salon owner said he is not concerned about the pending bill because the overwhelming majority of his clients are over 18. 25 years ago April 7, 1996: An old farmhouse that was once the heart of Credo Foundation’s resi...

Outdoornews April 1, 2021 (Westchester County) On March 11, ECOs Tompkins, Thibodeau, and Franz conducted a plainclothes fishing detail focused on anglers taking out-of-season striped bass. The officers patrolled George’s Island Park in the town of Cortlandt and Croton Landing Park in the village of Croton-on-Hudson. During the detail, the ECOs observed several anglers taking and keeping out-of-season fish. The ECOs issued 10 citations for violations including possessing out-of-season fish an...

Anglers stuck on floating sheet of ice, snowmobiler hits power pole: DEC Forest Ranger rescues Updated Mar 16, 2021; State Forest Rangers came to the rescue recently of two ice fishermen caught on a floating ice sheet on Lake Champlain and a snowmobiler who ran into a power pole. Those two incidents and others involving state Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers took place between March 14. All information below was supplied by the DEC. Town of Plattsburgh, Clinton County Wi...

pcrowley@adirondackdailyenterprise.com A burned house at 47 Rockledge Lane in Saranac Lake is seen mid-afternoon Tuesday. (Enterprise photo — Lou Reuter) SARANAC LAKE — Ashes from a wood stove had been put in a metal bucket, which was sitting in a metal wagon parked outside on the ground, up against the front porch. The bucket wasn’t covered. It was a windy day. Somehow, perhaps egged on by the wind, flames sprang up from the ash bucket in the middle of the night. The flames spread to...

Guest Commentary The Adirondack Park Agency will issue a death warrant to a pristine Adirondack lake Friday, and a mystery lurks as to why. Woodward Lake, in Fulton County, is about 100 acres, undeveloped and shallow. The entire tract is about 1,200 acres. The developer (who, according to Protect the Adirondacks, has four outside-the-Park projects totaling 533 lots on 9,800 acres) will be allowed to ring its shoreline with 18 lots, whack up an untouched forest with 16 more, and build 2,000 fee...

the Enterprise staff This past week in the Adirondacks, the state Department of Environmental Conservation rescued fishermen from a floating ice sheet, helped an injured snowmobiler and and rescued a couple whose vehicle got stuck on a snowmobile trail. – – On Mar. 1 at 3 p.m., DEC environmental conservation police officers (ECOs), DEC forest rangers and the Cumberland Head Fire Department helped two anglers stranded on a floating ice sheet on Lake Champlain in the town of Plattsburgh. ...

aflynn@lakeplacidnews.com Food scraps from Petrova Elementary School in Saranac Lake are turned in a compost bin. (Enterprise photo — Chris Knight) The state Department of Environmental Conservation will hold virtual public hearings on the Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling Act, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2022. Yet it is unclear how many businesses and institutions in the Tri-Lakes region may be affected. Organic material is the largest component of the municipal solid waste str...

aflynn@lakeplacidnews.com SARANAC LAKE — The state Department of Environmental Conservation will hold virtual public hearings on the Food Donation and Food Scraps Recycling Act, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2022. Yet it is unclear how many businesses and institutions in the Tri-Lakes region may be affected. Organic material is the largest component of the municipal solid waste stream in the United States, according to the Rochester Institute of Technology’s New York State Pollution Preve...

eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com Voters fill out ballots in an early voting session Oct. 28, 2019, at the Essex County Public Safety Building in Lewis. (Enterprise photo — Elizabeth Izzo) The Essex County Democratic Committee is requesting that the county find a place and staff for a second early voting site. The request comes in the third year of early voting for this state. It also comes as the Essex County Board of Elections prepares to relocate the county’s sole early voting sta...