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Northern Lights Choir hosts its Winter Concert on Friday night at 8 pm at St. Bernard's Church in Saranac Lake. Northern Lights Choir director Helen Demong says the theme for the concert is community with the title, "The Road Home. "The concert is considered by many in Saranac Lake, Lake Placid, Keene Valley and Tupper Lake to be a traditional event that kicks off the holiday season.The performance by the 70-voice, multi-generational community choir will include choral pieces from across the spectrum of time and genre and will feature a variety of styles from traditional holiday music and songs of different cultures. Helen Demong told Todd Moe that Friday evening's performance at St. Bernard's Church will bring the community together through music.

A plan to build a new network of snowmobile connector trails in the Adirondack Park can now move forward. A state Supreme Court judge in Albany ruled late last week that the system does not violate laws designed to keep the Park wild and pristine.

Some veterans in New York State are working through trauma and PTSD with the help of an unusual ally: William Shakespeare. They're part of a workshop called De-Cruit, which uses creative writing and Shakespearean monologues to help veterans heal. And it turns out the warriors in Shakespeare's day had a lot in common with today's service members.

New York faces fiscal challenges in 2018, but that has not stopped groups from asking for more money in the new state budget, including agencies that provide care to people with disabilities.

Keratin, the substance wool, hair, and feathers are made from, makes a pretty thin diet, but the clothes moth has been dogging humanity's closets and drawers for hundreds of years, unravelling the work of generations of knitters and weavers to feed its larvae.Martha has a personal beef with the moth and talks with Curt Stager about the life cycle of the moth, and how to fight its ruinous effects.

St. Lawrence University is launching an investigation into its men's hockey program. The review was announced in a campus-wide email by university president William Fox.

One of the biggest challenges that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers will face in 2018 is balancing the state's budget, which already has a structural deficit of more than $4 billion. On top of that, federal changes to taxes and health care could cost the state billions more in lost funding.

Starting next fall, students at SUNY Canton will have a new major to pick from - one that's meant to address a shortage of child care options for working parents.

A landmark footbridge in the City of Plattsburgh was closed last month, and it doesn't seem like it will reopen any time soon.The Webb Island Footbridge over the Saranac River has been around since the '80s. It connected the southern end of the city to the high school, SUNY Plattsburgh, and stores. But it had a number of safety issues.Local officials want to see the bridge repaired or replaced, but there's a fight over who's on deck to pay.

The Adirondack Film Society will present a special screening, and a North Country premiere, at the Palace Theatre in Lake Placid on Friday at 7 pm of a new award-winning documentary, Denial" The film was produced and co-created by Elizabethtown filmmaker Aaron Woolf, best known for his documentary about Big Agriculture, King Corn. This new film tackles the complex issues of renewable energy and climate change by following the path of Vermont electric utility CEO David Hallquist. But when his son, Derek, who directs the film, tries to tell his father's story, the film is soon derailed by a family secret: David Hallquist is a woman inside, soon to be named Christine. Todd Moe spoke with Aaron Wolf about the new film, that includes intimate family moments and the story of Hallquist's struggle to build a green energy company. Wolf says the documentary tries to unite the themes of climate change and gender identity.