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The contentious rail-trail debate in the Adirondacks may finally see some closure. This month the Adirondack Park Agency approved plans to tear up a rail line between Lake Placid and Tupper Lake to make way for a recreational trail.

The project also involves refurbishing a tourism train line from Tupper down past Old Forge.

North Country colleges are scrambling to figure out a plan for holding classes in the fall without causing new outbreaks of COVID-19. But a new study at Cornell University finds college students have very close connections when on campus.

Over the last several weeks we've spoken with people across the North Country about coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools closed, people started working from home and, in many cases, families have spent a lot more time together at home.

Where to find the planets in the evening and morning skies. And we get an explanation of earthshine on the moon and apparent retrograde motion of the planets.

School budget votes got delayed this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. And no one knows yet what classes in the fall will look like, and whether they’ll even be held in schools. But schools still have to finalize their budgets before a June vote. And they have fingers crossed the state and federal government will step in to help.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says the families of public workers who died due to COVID-19 will receive death benefits from the government. Cuomo announced the effort at his daily briefing on Monday.