Adirondack Daily Enterprise

LAKE PLACID - A local photographer's picture of the 90-mile Adirondack Canoe Classic race has been chosen as one of Sports Illustrated magazine's Pictures of the Year. Full Story »

First Night Saranac Lake banners are going up around the community. Two more banners will be unveiled Dec. 17 and two large ones on New Year's Eve. No comments posted for this article. Full Story »

Tri-Lakes food banks said recently they were all seeing more people visit their locations in search of help. Full Story »

MALONE - The Franklin County Highway Department came to an agreement last week with 17 towns in the county over payment to remove snow on county roads. Full Story »

LAKE PLACID - The town of North Elba, the Lake Placid Central School District and Essex County will refund $1.35 million in taxes to the owners of the Whiteface Lodge to settle a lengthy dispute over the assessed value of the resort. Full Story »

TUPPER LAKE - A Tupper Laker who now lives in Brooklyn showed off an original talent on "The Jay Leno Show" last week. Full Story »

LAKE PLACID - The prospect of this village hosting a Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2016 received a high-profile boost last month when village Mayor Craig Randall and Lake Placid/Essex County Visitors Bureau President and CEO James McKenna traveled to Lausanne, Switzerland. Full Story »

LAKE PLACID - After 150 years, Mary Brown is buried with her husband, at least symbolically. Full Story »

MALONE - The committee working to create an all-terrain vehicle trail system from one end of Franklin County to another may run into problems when they try to enforce the rules they plan to establish for it. Full Story »

LAKE PLACID - The village has decided not to allow free parking downtown during the month of December and will instead reimburse businesses that validate parking for their customers. Full Story »

LAKE PLACID - A procession of Essex County supervisors brought John Brown's coffin out of the Board of Supervisors' chambers, where it had lain overnight, to a waiting horse-drawn wagon Monday morning, which brought the coffin to Brown's farm in North Elba. Full Story »

If the Lake Placid Central School District were to switch to a split spring break, two factors would have to be considered, according to interim Superintendent Ernie Witkowski. Full Story »

TUPPER LAKE - The school board for the Tupper Lake Central School board agreed at its Monday meeting to preview a draft 2010-11 calendar that would switch its two-week-long April break to two one-week-long breaks. Full Story »

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LAKE PLACID - It was snowing. Most of the several dozen spectators were wearing coats, hats, scarves or gloves. A few even held umbrellas, as they paid their respects to "a man who was willing to die so that others could live unshackled," in the words of Robert Bullock. Full Story »

LAKE PLACID - All six of the panelists at the High Peaks Resort Saturday agreed that John Brown's legacy is a positive one, of being willing to risk it all in the fight for freedom. Full Story »

WILMINGTON - The conditions weren't exactly ideal, and only three trails were open, but that didn't stop a large crowd from showing up Saturday for the start of the 52nd winter season at Whiteface Mountain Ski Center. Full Story »

OSTERSUND, Sweden (AP) - It's been a historic week for Tim Burke and the U.S. biathlon team. The 27-year-old from Paul Smiths became the first American to medal at the sprint distance Saturday, two days after he matched the best U.S. finish in any biathlon event with a silver in the 20-kilometer. Full Story »

Few, if any, Adirondackers in the past century have been more tied to the concept of wilderness - as both an ideal and a way a life - than Clarence Petty, who died Monday in his family home in Canton at the age of 104. Full Story »

SARANAC LAKE - The village has reached an agreement on a new four-year contract with the union representing members of the village police department, but the details are being withheld from the public for now. Full Story »

SARANAC LAKE - Instead of spending Christmas at home around the tree, a local girl will be in China getting experimental stem-cell treatments that may correct her blindness. Full Story »

Regulations that would end commercial floatplane access to Lows Lake starting in 2012 were put up for public comment Wednesday. The proposed regulations for Lows Lake were agreed upon in the spring after a year of heated debate and were written by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Full Story »

SARANAC LAKE - A former Saranac Lake resident who faced more than a dozen counts of forgery for stealing checks and cashing them was sentenced to two years in jail this week. Full Story »

MALONE - After starting with an 18.38 percent increase in the tax levy of the tentative 2010 budget on Oct. 1, Franklin County passed a final budget Thursday that dropped the tax levy increase to 4.21 percent. Full Story »

TUPPER LAKE - A 23-year-old Long Island man was arrested Thursday on charges that he traveled to Tupper Lake and had sex with a girl under the age of 17 after having Internet chat and cell phone conversations with her. Full Story »