News stories tagged with "recreation"

(08/11/11) If you're interested in eating locally, the folks at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake are setting up a feast of information and food today. Stefanie Ratcliffe is director of the Wild Center. She says they hold a farmer's market every Thursday, but they wanted to do more to help people find ways to eat locally and to find local food and beer producers. more

(06/21/11) A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday in Saranac Lake for the Adirondack Carousel. A project more than 10 years in the making, the carousel will feature more two-dozen hand-carved and hand-painted Adirondack animals.

The merry-go-round will be housed in a large pavillion designed to serve as a center for education programs as well as for birthday parties and other events.

As Chris Knight reports, it hasn't been an easy road for the project, which was shelved two years ago because of the recession. more

(06/10/11) The North Creek Business Alliance organized the first annual North Creek Brew Fest on the Hudson in order to help fund a winter shuttle to Gore Mountain and make the town a destination. Sarah Harris was there to sample the festivities.

(05/12/11) Crossword puzzles are the kind of kitchen table sport you usually do by yourself. But like avid fans of all sorts, serious crossword puzzlers have found a community online. One of their most popular meeting spots was created by a Binghamton University professor. more

(11/30/10) Saranac Lake writer Caperton Tissot says ice has had an enormous impact on life in the Adirondacks. The unavoidable winter element is the subject of her new book, Adirondack Ice: A Cultural and Natural History. It traces the evolution of the influence of ice on everything from industries, transportation, recreation, accidents and the 1998 Ice Storm. Caperton Tissot told Todd Moe that her fascination with ice began with its beauty when she volunteered to help with the Ice Palace in Saranac Lake during the annual Winter Carnival.

(10/07/10) Over the last 20 years, sport paddlers in the Adirondacks have been pushing the limit on the kind of water their canoes, rafts, and kayaks can navigate. They've developed new techniques and new equipment that can handle more aggressive rapids and even waterfalls. And paddlers are also waging fierce legal battles to try to open more rivers, including routes that offer access to remote wilderness areas.

Some landowners are pushing back, arguing the sport is stepping on their private property rights. As Brian Mann reports, the dispute has sparked a kind of range war on some of the North Country's most beautiful rivers. more

(07/30/10) It's county fair season in the North Country. And that means it's also fried food season. Fried dough, French fries, funnel cakes. At the Lewis County fair last week in Lowville, David Sommerstein bumped into some "X-treme" frying: fried oreo cookies. He sent this Heard Up North.

(07/26/10) Over the last 20 years, sport paddlers in the Adirondacks have been pushing the limit on the kind of water their canoes, rafts, and kayaks can navigate. They've developed new techniques and new equipment that can handle more aggressive rapids and even waterfalls. And paddlers are also waging fierce legal battles to try to open more rivers, including routes that offer access to remote wilderness areas.

Some landowners are pushing back, arguing the sport is stepping on their private property rights. As Brian Mann reports, the dispute has sparked a kind of range war on some of the North Country's most beautiful rivers. more

(07/13/10) Gov. David Paterson was in Lake Placid yesterday for two "good news" events. He celebrated the Mt. Van Hoevenberg bobrun's long history, and signed an anti-DWI bill named after Olympian Jack Shea, who died in a crash with an alleged drunk driver eight years ago.

But state funding is crucial to the Olympic Regional Development Authority and the facilities it operates. So when the handshakes were all over, there were questions to answer. Martha Foley has more.

(02/05/10) Photographer Nancie Battaglia is familiar to most of us as a talented all-around photographer, with an eye for both people and landscape. Her photographs regularly appear in Adirondack Life and other publications - including NCPR's book, Food, Stories, Life. But she came to Lake Placid to document the 1980 Winter Olympics... and Winter Olympics are still a sort of specialty.

Battaglia will be checking in with North Country Public Radio from the Vancouver Games. Martha Foley spoke with her this morning.