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Adirondack News
- St. Lawrence County buys financial softwareSpending almost $1 million to manage money seems wrongish.
- Council: state budget cuts threaten Adirondacks"...cuts in major environmental initiatives and staff losses at state regulatory agencies are threatening the Adirondack Park's natural resources and tourism."
- Studded and ready to rollIf newspapers start writing about people doing Instructables, then perhaps they do have a future. (http://bit.ly/yPfcIp)
- Inside the Winter Carnival's Ice Palace alien invasion"We get people to dress up as aliens."
- State considers bobcat management plan"We've been harvesting bobcats for many years"
- On The Hunt For Wild Boars (Video)"Local Hunters Try To Control A Growing Herd."
- Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Rotary Show Set for Feb 10"We look forward to the opportunity to showcase some really good talent"
- Oak Mountain for sale again"no strings attached"
- Winter Carnival kicks off sans snow"It’s sunny and warm; I think it’s bringing out more people because of that."
- Governor visits North Country to promote budget package"Stumps in North Country as part of statewide tour"
- Ice fishing not so great this year"It got a late start. The ice hasn't been thick enough to support ice shanties. It's too bad, because ice fishing was a great economic boon to the community."
- Rare tundra swans visit North Country"The trio has probably chosen to stay on Lake Champlain for the time being because of the mild winter and open lake."
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Recent Posts
- Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Rotary Show Set for Feb 10
- The World Visits Lake Placid in February… Bobsled and Skeleton World Championships Return
- Endangered Species
- Newcomb acquires properties from The Nature Conservancy
- DEC Seeks Information Regarding the Killing of a Bald Eagle
- Saranac Lake Midwinter Carnival
- Gore Mountain Restaurant Week Starts Sunday!
- Lake George Area 2012 Events
- DEC Opens New Snowmobile Trail Segment in Wilmington
- DEC Region 5 End of Big Game Season Enforcement Report
Recent Comments
- Lions tigers on DEC Response to Mountain Lion Rumors
- TourPro on Night Vision – Wildlife Photography of Hobart V. Roberts
- Donald L. Brockman Jr. on Night Vision – Wildlife Photography of Hobart V. Roberts
- TourPro on Lyon Mountain – Hiking the New Trail
- AdkHiker on Lyon Mountain – Hiking the New Trail
- Stephanie Siciliano on Tourists Make a Billion-Dollar Impact on Northern New York
- Bill on An Adirondack Gift
- Barbara on An Adirondack Gift
Around the Campfire
- Slideshow: Wild Hogs Wreaking Havoc in North Country (graphic?)It's like a Swine-Zombie Invasion.
- Proposed Northern VT Rail TrailStrange how the Train-people never mention the Missisquoi Valley Rail Trail.
- Lana Del Rey’s SNL performances of “Blue Jean” and “Video Games”I defy you to watch the entire thing.
- Adirondack Club and Resort Draft APA PermitsMaybe with Free Flights into the Saranac Lake Airport this would make the proposed camps more attractive to buyers.
- Oak Mtn Ski Area/Cell Tower Sale RFP (PDF)All the details here.
- Meet the Adirondack Heritage PigsHa ha.
- Flashback: Former Olympic speed skater proposes to lease, manage OvalSee today's Press Republican "Letters".
- Obama Takes Over Santa's Workshop (video)What?!
- Who Am I?A fun new game.
- This is the Perfect House for Surviving a Zombie Attack GalleryThis house has been getting a lot of play. Now on eBaum's.
- Hikers threatened at gunpoint in Windham"Get out of here or I'm going to kill you" (via adkforum)
- Can You Really Eat Tree Bark?"There is a tribe in the mountains of upstate New York called the 'Adirondack', and that name translates to 'bark eaters' from the Iroquois language."
- Slideshow: Wild Hogs Wreaking Havoc in North Country (graphic?)
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- Chambers and visitors bureaus"The Saranac Lake chamber should take the lead in developing business services and relinquish control of visitor services. The dollars currently collected to support the visitor service should, in turn, go to their original intention."
- Broadband access critical to Adirondack lifePerhaps "highly-desired" may be a better term.
- The leather lung: where not to sit"If you wind up near one, take comfort that the game will last only a couple of hours — and, next time, you'll know where not to sit."
- Peru Nordic Makes Most out of Snowless WinterWe need to declare WAR on the lack of snow.
- Hike St. Regis Mountain"The trailhead for St. Regis Mountain is located near Paul Smiths College, 71 miles from Plattsburgh"
- Saranac Lake Winter Ice Palace 2012 (Virtual via @CedarEden)So awesome!
- Change in inmate counting is only a start"Far too many of our young urban men in New York spend often-brief sojourns in rural prisons that stigmatize them for the rest of their lives, exposing them to legal discrimination and relegating them to a lower class existence."
- Time Running Out for Spruce GrouseIt's the other Adirondack Chicken.
- Hadley Mountain provides great views, requires great effort"Southern Adirondacks, inside the Blue Line, near Lake Luzerne"
- Tax returns derail hope of viable train (including PDF)I've got the perfect solution.
- @AndyArthur Map of the Day "Lake Lila" (PDF)Why not take a tour of Shingle Shanty Brook? Heh.
- Basic Avalanche Awareness - Jim Giglinto (audio 58:55)Worth a listen.
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- Chambers and visitors bureaus"The Saranac Lake chamber should take the lead in developing business services and relinquish control of visitor services. The dollars currently collected to support the visitor service should, in turn, go to their original intention."
- Pinterest's Uber Growth, Theories, & Digital Self-ActualizationThis also partially explains the gender-skew.
- New York 2010 Tourism Economic Impact - State & Regions
- A Regional Destination Marketing Organization?Uh huh.
- Teresa Mitchell RIP
- 5 Flaws in Your Mobile Marketing StrategyIf it's poorly presented on the web, regurgitating it in a "mobile" version won't help..
- New Life for "I Love NY" Campaign?In the 1970's, the NY State Department of Commerce created the popular "I love NY" advertising campaign.
- Did Foursquare just kill a bunch of trip planning startups?Foursquare definitely has user-momentum. The crowdsourcing model is quite cool.
- Empire State Tourism Conference 2012I'd like to go.
- A Christmas Story from Lake Placid, Adirondacks, USA (video)Real-people marketing. That's what I'm talking about.
- Flashback: Taking Adirondack Tourism 2.0 the Next Level"Things are moving quickly in regards to the ever changing information channels presented by the internet."
- For a better tourism industry, just sing along"Promote the region as the Lake George/Saratoga region."
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