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Apr 23, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Neal Burdick |Niki Kourofsky |Brian Mann |Daniel Vollaro
Photograph by Johnathan EsperLast summer, when Gerry Delaney spoke at a public forum about the future of the Adirondack Park, the conservative councilman from the town of Saranac laid out a vision that’s become a startling new normal. He acknowledged deep policy divides while insisting that all the park’s factions embrace neighborliness and civility. “There are different interests between the environmental groups and local governments,” Delaney said. “But we all have to live together.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
adirondacklife.com | Brian Mann |Tim Rowland |Annie Stoltie
by | April 2024, Featured Last summer, a landowner abruptly closed public access to the Chimney Mountain trail, a popular day-hike in the Indian Lake area that crossed a section of private property.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
kyuk.org | Brian Mann
While Israel aims to destroy Hamas so it can't attack again like it did on October 7, the group's popularity seems to be growing in the West Bank. Copyright 2023 NPR
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
adirondacklife.com | John McMahon |Niki Kourofsky |Brian Mann |John Warren
Illustration by Mark Wilson In the late 1970s my parents bought a summer cabin on Fourth Lake. Calling it a summer cabin is high praise because it was little more than a shack. But it was only a five-minute run from the front door to the lakefront for five-year-old me and that made me look forward to our time there. I still loathed the drive.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
adirondacklife.com | Niki Kourofsky |Brian Mann |John Warren |Johnathan A. Esper
Last spring we launched the My Adirondacks Project with our friends at the Adirondack Land Trust (ALT) because we were curious about what kids who live in or visit this place see and feel when they turn their attention to the natural world. We asked them to send us a photograph taken in the Adirondacks and tell us why what they captured matters to them. The kids delivered!We are thrilled to see new perspectives on a place we’ve covered every which way since 1969—always from adults’ perspectives.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
adirondacklife.com | Niki Kourofsky |Brian Mann |John Warren |Johnathan A. Esper
Albert Alletag—a New York City butler who dabbled in photography—captured this early-20th-century Whiteface Mountain resident with “keep out” and “hands off” scrawled on his cabin. The photo—perhaps cheekily titled Camp Welcome—appears in Adirondack Photographers 1850–1950 (Syracuse University Press), by Sally Svenson, along with the stories and work of more than 200 other photographers (195 pages, $29.95, hardcover, black-and-white photographs, press.syr.edu).
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
adirondacklife.com | John McMahon |Niki Kourofsky |Annie Stoltie |Brian Mann
by | October 2023, Travel Rustic chair by Barry Gregson, carving by Jillian Post; photographs by Carrie Marie BurrEvery fall for more than 30 years, the Adirondack Experience, in Blue Mountain Lake, has hosted the best in classic and contemporary rustic art. Meet some of the showstoppers featured at this year’s Rustic Furniture Fair.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
ctpublic.org | Brian Mann
The drug maker Mallinckrodt is working to avoid payments to people who have struggled with addiction to opioids, as originally reported by the Wall Street Journal. Copyright 2023 NPR
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
adirondacklife.com | Niki Kourofsky |Brian Mann |John Warren |Johnathan A. Esper
Photograph by Carl Heilman IISometimes an extended getaway can seem like such a commitment. What if you’re only in the mood for a quickie? Whether you’re down for some easy-access backcountry or you prefer a bed at the end of the trail, we’ve got you covered with these one-night outings—just enough to recharge your batteries with a dose of vitamin nature without a long-term engagement.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
ctpublic.org | Brian Mann
One of the most storied horses in thoroughbred racing history, Funny Cide, died this week at the age of 23.
Small in stature, the feisty chestnut was an unknown when he was entered into the Kentucky Derby in 2003. Funny Cide faced 12-1 odds — the definition of a longshot. A New York state-bred horse had never won the big race.
But when the gates opened on that May morning at Churchill Downs, Funny Cide ran strong.
