Tim Rowland

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Students draw on knowledge of Adirondack Park in annual science competitionIn an a forest of maple and yellow birch, three teams of high school students showed off their environmental scientific knowledge, the prize being a chance to represent Hamilton County in the annual state Envirothon competition. Although on May 1 in Lake Pleasant, the chance to be out of the classroom and on a trail on a sun-splashed spring morning was something of a prize in itself.

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Rural communities in Adirondacks see decline in quality of mail serviceBy Tim RowlandLake Pleasant Town Clerk Stephanie Smith thought something might be amiss as the calendar turned to February and some town property owners who typically paid their tax bills became delinquent. She was all the more suspicious because it wasn’t just a few — dozens of bills were going unpaid, almost as if some concerted tax revolt was in the making. All of February went by and still no payments.

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Mary Coffin was dedicated to making the North Country National Scenic Trail a realityBy Tim RowlandOn the first day of spring that really felt like it, Bob Rosati, Kim Putnam and Dick Frio were performing some spit-polish work on the new northern section of Jones Hill trail near Schroon lake, cleaning up blowdown, kicking aside a winter’s worth of fallen sticks and removing orange surveyor tape with which foresters had sketched out the route.

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Ampersand Bulb Co. has turned to letters to representatives and social media to tell her story of a business hit hard by the current administration’s tariff policiesBy Tim RowlandIn 2017, Linda D’Arco founded Little Farmhouse Flowers “basically with a shovel and a wheelbarrow,” cultivating blooms and designing wedding bouquets.

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Newcomb’s $1.9M building at Overlook Park aims to connect community and visitorsOn a piece of high ground in the central Adirondacks where the timber giant Finch, Pruyn & Company once used standing trees to spell out the initials FP, the town of Newcomb has made its own mark with a $1.9 million visitor/community/communications center that will officially open with a ceremony on May 24.