Join the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake for the 2012 Cabin Fever Sunday series. The first program, “Chester Gillette: The Adirondacks’ Most Famous Murder Case” will be held on Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 1:30pm.

It’s the stuff movies are made of- a secret relationship, a pregnancy and a murder. Over a century after it happened in Big Moose Lake, N.Y., the Chester Gillette murder case of 1906 is the murder that will never die. The murder of Grace Brown and the case following was the subject of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 book An American Tragedy, and the Hollywood movie “A Place in the Sun.” The story continues to be told today with a 1999 Opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and in a 2011 documentary “North Woods Elegy.” (more…)

Back Row (left to right): Robert Ward, Laurie Coppola, Joe Lucas, Dave Karcher, Scott Perkins, Matthew Riker, Lisa Karcher, Julie Briscoe, Margaret Noel, Adam Hills; Front Row: Nick Coppola, Joe Coppola, Everett Norris, Mike Coppola, Kristiana Briscoe

The Allegiance Bowl Committee recently presented a check in the amount of $10,000 to the Saratoga Springs Pop Warner Football & Cheerleading programs representing the proceeds from the seventh annual Adirondack Trust Allegiance Bowl featuring sprint football teams from Army and Navy.

“We are extremely pleased that the community turned out to support this charity event and its beneficiary, Saratoga Springs Pop Warner football and cheerleading,” said Scott Perkins, Allegiance Bowl Committee Chair. (more…)

Dorothy Wheeler, along with WWARC members and supporters, cuts the ribbon at the new Van Dusen Respite Center's Open House

Warren & Washington Counties ARC, a chapter of NYSARC, Inc., held a ribbon cutting ceremony and open house at the new Van Dusen Respite Center at 3 Ogden Road on Friday, December 16^th. One of the only respite centers between Albany and Montreal, the center is a five bedroom home that is staffed and equipped to accommodate medically frail guests, and to provide overnight respite to up to ten children or adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities on weekends, as well as school break respite.  The center arranges social and recreational opportunities for guests with similar interests, while providing families of individuals with disabilities an opportunity to relax and recharge.  The center is slated to open and host its first group of children in early 2012. (more…)

High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care provides end of life care that listens with respect, cares with compassion, supports with choice and comforts with understanding wherever you call home.

The 4^th Annual High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care Snowshoe Outing will be held on Saturday, February 25^th, 2012 at Up Yonda Farm in Bolton Landing at 10am.

Registrations are being accepted for the 4th Annual Snowshoe Outing!  This fun, family-focused event will be held on Saturday, February 25th, 2012 (the last Saturday of winter break, for those of you with kids in school!) at 10am at Up Yonda Farm in Bolton Landing.

$20 pledge/pp includes snowshoes! Pledge forms available by contacting Sunday Conine at 518-743-1672, ext. 117, or via email here.  Get your friends, family and co-workers to sponsor your trek and help High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care raise the much-needed funds to support patients and families.

High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. provides a holistic approach to end-of-life care.  The interdisciplinary team include nurses (RNs and LPNs), social workers, home health aides, a hospice physician, a bereavement counselor, trained volunteers, chaplains, nutrition counselors and therapists. (more…)

Crandall Public Library received a grant of $28,000 from the locally-based Leo Cox Beach Foundation.  Funds have been awarded by the Foundation to support three Library projects scheduled for 2012.

A portion of the funding will enable Crandall Public Library to host Selected Shorts, the hit public radio show produced by Symphony Space in New York City, for the third consecutive year.  Selected Shorts is a live performance of short stories, read by actors of stage and screen.  This award-winning program has become one of the most popular series on the airwaves, elevating appreciation for the art of the short story and providing an exciting mix of literature and theater.  (more…)

The PERFECT gift for that beloved athlete in your life, is a personal coaching session with the area’s only Sport Psychology Coach to improve concentration, create confidence, and instill mental toughness by using, guided-imagery, mental rehearsal and visualization techniques.

“Visualization is the key to my success.” Aaron Rodgers, NFL quarterback, Green Bay Packers. “While lying in bed I go over every scenario in my mind.” (more…)