Adirondack Community College students awarded for achievement, service
SUNY Adirondack recognized the academic achievements of its students this school year at the College’s Academic Excellence Awards ceremony held recently.
Suspect charged with text messaging harassment
Warrensburg Court Report
April 18 - Judge Mindy Fisk presiding
NWCS students to describe D.C. trip
Public invited to program
The North Warren High School students enrolled in the school’s chapter of Model Organization of American States will present a program at 7 p.m. Monday May 21 in the Horicon Community Center detailing their experiences during the group’s recent educational trip to Washington D.C.
Town Talk
Citizen & Business of the Year
Turning Back the Pages
•100 Years Ago – May 1912•
Athol-Thurman
The Thurman Townwide sale this weekend will have many barn and yard sales, food booths and more for people from near and far to browse through.
North Creek home to ballroom dancing
Ballroom dancing is dead. It’s a memory. It’s the canceled Lawrence Welk Show. It’s a caricature. It’s definitely not what Indian Lake’s Bruce and Martha Merchant were doing recently in Johnsburg Central School’s cafetorium.
Saratoga-North Creek Railway expands summer season
To offer daily service, themed train events
The Saratoga & North Creek Railway announced May 16 that it will return to the rails with an expanded daily schedule for summer and fall 2012.
Feds rule on Tahawus railroad line
Appeal denied but exemption no problem
The federal Surface Transportation Board Monday, May 14 announced that it has ruled on the Saratoga-North Creek Railway’s case to operate the Tahawus Line from North Creek to the former mine in the town of Newcomb.
Voters approve public funding of Richards Library
Warrensburg's Richards Library, founded by sisters 111 years ago and supported by their endowment since then, will now receive public funds to help offset rising operating costs. The annual tax levy of $98,100 approved May 15 by local residents will also allow completion of an expansion project that has been in limbo for about six years.
Fishless Joe
Notes from the North Woods
Almost every angler has suffered at least one embarrassing incident while pursuing fish.
Fur prices trending upward
Outdoor Tales
I used to love to trap. Some of my most fond memories growing up in the Adirondacks involve wading around bug-infested beaver meadows, a packbasket laden with steel traps tugging on my shoulders.
Warrensburg area voters approve school budgets
Some incumbents ousted on school boards
Recent years' controversy and wrangling over school district spending lead to the approval May 15 of all upcounty 2012-13 proposed budgets, but prompted the defeat of a number of incumbent school board members.
It is time for citizen legislators, term limits
Thoughts from Behind the Pressline
I receive a lot of emails from North Country readers and even a few from folks around the country who find the column online.
Little League baseball a hit
Editorial
Hundreds of children are playing Little League baseball this spring in our region. It’s a tradition that goes back decades.
Politicians hail fed decision on Tahawus railroad line
Proposal now qualifies for class exemption
U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Bill Owens May 14 announced that the Federal Surface Transportation Board has heeded their call and approved Iowa Pacific Holdings’ request for common carrier status, which will allow them to reopen the Tahawus Line between North Creek and Newcomb, and resume hauling freight to and from businesses along that line.
Public input sought on budget cuts
Warren County expenditures grew from $72 million in 1998 to $145 million in 2012 while our population only grew 4 percent.
Bargains at Thurman Townwide Sale
About 70 families in the rural mountainous town of Thurman will be opening their barn doors and filling their yards with a variety of wares May 18 through 20 for the Thurman Townwide Sale.
Clarification on library proposition
The Warrensburg Central School District legal notice published earlier in April stated that the proposed levy for Richards Library would be Proposition #3 on the ballot at the May 15th election at the high school.
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