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In Recovery

In Recovery

Every month or so a sandwich board in front of Upper Jay Upholstery advertises “music tonight 8 pm.” That’s all it takes. By nightfall people spill out of the boxy, three-story building—a former Model T–factory—at the corner of Route 9N and Springfield Road.

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A Hopkinton Haunting

A Hopkinton Haunting

Photograph by Aaron Hobson   MAUREEN MCCARGAR IS a reasonable woman. She’s a devoted wife and mother, has an important career, is a well-respected member of the community. And she swears her house is haunted. Not creaky floorboards, flickering lamps haunted-lite...

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An Adirondack Icon Revealed

An Adirondack Icon Revealed

There’s a hunk of moss-dappled granite near Baxter Mountain’s Beede Lane trailhead in Keene Valley. You might prop an awkward daypack beside it or lean against it to shake a pebble from a boot. Most folks wouldn’t think to climb it, with Baxter’s summit’s sweet valley...

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October 2026

Lost hikers, splintered bones and wildfires—a forest ranger reflects on more than two decades of coming to the rescue. Plus the oldest tavern in the Adirondacks, a trip through James Bond’s Lake George, and new energy in Schroon Lake.

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