(Feb 20, 2026) It's Black History Month. In Albany, Black lawmakers and other lawmakers of color in Albany used the occasion to highlight key priorities like more education funding, affordable housing, and sentencing reform. Also: The APA approved a new 22-unit housing development in Lake Placid at its meeting yesterday.

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(Feb 20, 2026) Gaining 3 minutes of daylight per day. 1-2 feet of snow across most lower elevations in the ADKs.

(Feb 20, 2026) The Fox Hill subdivision would include 22 housing units. Meanwhile, Adirondack Wild was approved to be part of an upcoming adjudicatory hearing.

(Feb 20, 2026) Clarke and Barbara Dunham have been building sets for Broadway productions for decades.

(Feb 19, 2026) The Police Department did not provide any additional details about how many cameras have been installed in the village and where they are located.

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(Feb 19, 2026) New York has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the Olympic venues in Lake Placid in recent years. But the agency that runs them says it doesn't have a long-term maintenance plan. The board will vote tomorrow on to do next. Also: Civil liberties groups are pushing back on Governor Hochul's proposed ban on A.I.-generated campaign attack ads.

(Feb 19, 2026) The Olympic Regional Development Authority says it doesn't have a long-term plan to care for its facilities in Lake Placid; people living north of Syracuse are concerned about the wastewater that could come from the massive Micron semiconductor chip plant; and as the Winter Olympics wind down in Italy, we have a conversation with a filmmaker about his own portrait of many of the athletes in the years ahead of the games.

(Feb 19, 2026) Richard Stafford was charged with 2 counts of 2nd-degree forgery and petit larceny.