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WATERTOWN — The staff of the Watertown Daily Times, the Malone Telegram and NNY Magazines have been honored by the New York Press Association for their excellent work in the association’s 2020 Better Newspaper Contest. The association, which oversaw the judging of 2,440 entries from 151 newspapers across the state, awarded recognition at the organization’s 2021 NYPA Virtual Spring Conference. The conference was streamed online for the second year in a row due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Videos were streamed live and posted to the association’s website. The staff of N...

Adirondack Daily Enterprise A woman from Saranac Lake received a letter from the state Department of Labor telling her she had unemployment insurance money to collect — and then another and another. All of them looked very official. The woman, whom the Enterprise is not naming to protect her from retribution, said the phone numbers, postage and Key Bank debit card she got all seemed legitimate. But the letters inside telling her she had unemployment insurance to collect did not make any sense. She’s retired. “I thought, ‘Maybe New York state is really losing it,'” she said. The let...

acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com A fraudulent unemployment insurance claim may appear legitimate, as this one does, with all the accurate information for the state Department of Labor, but it may have been filed by a scammer who obtained personal information through a data breach. (Photo provided) A woman from Saranac Lake received a letter from the state Department of Labor telling her she had unemployment insurance money to collect — and then another and another. All of them looked very official. The woman, whom the Enterprise is not naming to protect her from retribution, said th...

Adirondack Daily Enterprise A woman from Saranac Lake received a letter from the state Department of Labor telling her she had unemployment insurance money to collect — and then another and another. All of them looked very official. The woman, whom the Enterprise is not naming to protect her from retribution, said the phone numbers, postage and Key Bank debit card she got all seemed legitimate. But the letters inside telling her she had unemployment insurance to collect did not make any sense. She’s retired. “I thought, ‘Maybe New York state is really losing it,'” she said. The let...

CANTON — In response to Wednesday’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, protesters across the north country took to the streets Thursday, calling for Rep. Elise M. Stefanik’s resignation — including her former Democratic challenger, Tedra L. Cobb. The protesters accused Rep. Stefanik, as well as other GOP lawmakers, of promoting sedition, or the incitement of rebellion against the authority of the government, when they challenged the results of the Nov. 3 election that saw President-elect Joseph R. Biden win the presidency. On Wednesday, during a joint session of the House and Senat...