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The war in Ukraine is thousands of miles away from most Americans, but people in the North Country are worried about how the conflict could affect their lives.
BLOOMINGDALE — The air was a chilly 40 degrees on Monday morning when Alex Santo, up to his knees in water, broke up a beaver dam on the side of
Ten years ago, Hurricane Irene dumped nearly a foot of rain in sections of the Adirondacks. Rivers and towns were flooded and roads and bridges were ripped apart. One of the rivers hit hardest by Irene has since been re-engineered to handle more extreme...
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 counterterrorism consulting firm who turned a Cold War thermonuclear missile site in the Adirondack...
Bottled water at the town of Jay highway garage (News photo — Andy Flynn) Bottled water can be picked up by residents affected by the boil water order in Jay and Upper Jay at the town highway garage in Upper Jay. (News photo — Andy Flynn) This water tanker at the Upper Jay firehouse is providing free drinking water to families affected by the boil water order in the hamlets of Jay and Upper Jay. (News photo — Andy Flynn) This water tanker at the Upper Jay firehouse is providing free drinking water to families affected by the boil water order in the hamlets of Jay and Upper J...