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Feb 24, 2021 KEENE VALLEY — New York state forest rangers guided a trio of unprepared snowshoers out out the High Peaks Wilderness last week. On Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 5:37 p.m., DEC’s Ray Brook dispatch was notified of three overdue snowshoers who left from the Garden parking area in Keene Valley to hike the Johns Brook Valley and had not returned. The hikers were from Albany and Topeka, Kansas. They did not have lights, overnight gear or appropriate clothing for anticipated zero-degree tem...

Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. (Photo provided) In a notable new book, “A Prison in the Woods,” Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. seeks to analyze connections between penal systems and environmental issues as related to the Adirondacks. It’s a topic I’d never thought about before. Apparently not many others have, either, as the author claims his work is the first on the topic. In one sense, incarceration in the Adirondacks isn’t a new phenomenon. A state prison opened in Dannemora during ...

Feb 16, 2021 Susan Norma Jeanne Sutton, often known as Norma Rowell, age 75, of Saranac Lake, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, at Spring Cypress Assisted Living in Cypress, Texas. Born and raised in Millville, New Jersey to the late Leamond and Norma (Petit) Sutton, Susan graduated from Millville High School, graduated from Helene Fuld School of Nursing on a full scholarship, then went on to earn her bachelor’s degree from SUNY Plattsburgh in New York state. Often descri...

“They seem to have a good sense of direction,” he said. DuMond said once they were close, a bucket of grain helped incentivize them to come back to the farm. He removed a section of a fence and drove them back in. “They were tuckered out,” he said. “They weren’t anxious to do it. I think they had a pretty good run for the day.” He thought they were all back, but more showed up. “I thought I counted them all when I put six of them back in, and then a friend of mine came in w...

Injured snowmobiler, lost hiker, ice climber with leg injury: DEC Forest Ranger rescues Updated Feb 03, 2021; State Forest Rangers recently helped rescue a woman involved in a snowmobile crash, located a lost hiker and rescued an ice climber with a leg injury. The following incidents took place between December and late January. All information below was supplied by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Village of Speculator (Lake Pleasant) Hamilton County Wilderness Rescue: “O...

RAY BROOK — State troopers searched the woods Wednesday for around a dozen escapees — not inmates from either of the two prisons in this hamlet, but Herefo

eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com LAKE PLACID — The town of North Elba will host Essex County’s lone early voting station for the foreseeable future. A new state law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month requires each county to have at least one early voting place located within its municipality with the highest population. For Essex County, that municipality is the town of North Elba — and because this rural county has only one early voting station, that means voters from all across...

Franklin County Public Health reported a spike in COVID-19 cases on Friday. Thirty-nine new cases of COVID-19 were identified between Thursday and Friday. That is abnormally high for this rural county, which has recently reported around 20 new cases each day. The new cases bring the total number of active cases countywide to 195. The county reported a 6.04% test positivity rate on Friday and a 6.36% seven-day average test positivity rate. Franklin County Manager Donna Kissane attributed the...

Jan 14, 2021 — The New York State troopers are investigating a fatal ski accident at Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks this week. According to police in Ray Brook, Bernhard "Tanner" Kahlau, 22,  lost control and hit a tree while he was skiing on Tuesday. Kahlau was from Mountain Top, Pennsylvania and played hockey at SUNY Fredonia in western New York. "We are saddened by the loss of our teammate, Tanner," Fredonia State Head Coach  Jeff Meredith said. "The impact he left on our prog...

Jan 14, 2021 — The New York State troopers are investigating a fatal ski accident at Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks this week. According to police in Ray Brook, Bernhard "Tanner" Kahlau, 22,  lost control and hit a tree while he was skiing on Tuesday. Kahlau was from Mountain Top, Pennsylvania and played hockey at SUNY Fredonia in western New York. "We are saddened by the loss of our teammate, Tanner," Fredonia State Head Coach  Jeff Meredith said. "The impact he left on our prog...