Wilmington News

Bed-tax cop a possibility: Supervisors suspect some hotels are lax in reporting Jul.

JEERS to bicyclists who clog up area roads. It may be legal to ride bicycles in the roads, but, as a courtesy to passing drivers, cyclers should move inside the shoulders when possible.

Delaware state police say two stolen truck trailers have been recovered in New York City, minus their loads of bananas.

The Adirondack Medical Center staff shortage is so acute that contingency plans have been drawn for shutting down the Lake Placid emergency room if there aren't enough doctors and nurses to work the night ...

Essex County lawmakers are balking at paying additional communications costs for the county's Enhanced 911 system.

Given the chronic flooding of Catskill rivers during 2005 and 2006, you might consider heading farther north this summer to fish the West Branch Ausable near Wilmington.

Lance Gregson, a stone mason who specialized in unique fireplaces, was killed on Oct.

The storms are being blamed for causing a fatal motorcycle accident in New York.

A wind farm developer goes communal... The family of a Vermont soldier - killed in a non-combat incident - must decide whether to make the circumstances around his death public, or not... And Wilmington, NY ...

As gas prices rocket toward $5 a gallon in the North Country, drivers are biting the bullet, making sacrifices in an attempt to save.

The trial date in a long-running legal battle between chip giant Intel Corp and smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc was delayed until 2010, both companies said Thursday.

A new UNICEL cellular-phone site is online and operational in Wilmington. The antenna site on an existing structure was approved by the Adirondack Park Agency last November for installation at Ledge Rock Motel, ...

The New York State Department of Health will conduct a rabies-vaccine bait drop for raccoons Thursday and Friday.

CHEERS : to a Web site that ingeniously informs visitors to that site of the least and most expensive gas prices in an area, station by station.

May 15, 2008 7:37 PM , By Larry Riggs A U.S. bankruptcy judge has granted permission for the sale of Sharper Image assets at an auction in New York on May 28. via DIRECT Magazine

Crews from several area departments responded to a reported residential structure fire here earlier today. via Press-Republican

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“It looks like there is no confidence in an economy where inflation is getting out of control”

The outlook of U.S. consumers sank to a 17-year low this month as the job market deteriorated, while costly commodities drove producer price inflation in January to its highest in more than 26 years, according ... via Earth Times

“I, of course, know all of the great mountain highways of Europe . There is no highway in all of Europe which can compare for its engineering skill, for its perfection of detail, with the White Face Mountain Highway of the State of New York .”

In no particular order, Adirondack Almanack's list of Seven Human Made Wonders of the Adirondacks. via Adirondack Almanack

This year's series will consist of eight races with all events acting as qualifiers for the 2008 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships. via USA Cycling