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Tag: North Country
Celebrate the Season at the 2023 Adirondack Harvest Festival!
Check out the Adirondack Harvest Festival on September 23rd from 12-5 PM in Westport, NY at the Essex County Fairgrounds. Celebrate the harvest season and local agriculture with some great community organizations from across our region during this FREE one-day event. This year, the family-friendly festival will feature a large farmers’ market, kids’ activities, draft…
Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride in the North Country This Weekend!
Join the Adirondack North Country Gender Alliance for the 7th annual LGBTQI+ Pride Celebration on Saturday, October 1st from 12-4 PM in Plattsburgh, NY. Free and family-friendly, the annual event celebrates LGBTQI+ History Month with a parade beginning at Redcay Hall on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus and ending at Trinity Park in downtown Plattsburgh. This…
Don’t Miss This Year’s Adirondack Harvest Festival at the Essex County Fairgrounds!
Check out the Adirondack Harvest Festival on September 24th from 12-5 PM in Westport, NY. Celebrate the harvest season and local agriculture with some great community organizations from across our region during this FREE one-day event. This year, the family-friendly festival will feature a large farmers’ market, kids’ activities, a farm animal petting zoo, live…
Family Fun at the 2021 Adirondack Harvest Festival
Enjoy an assortment of family-friendly activities during the 2021 Adirondack Harvest Festival: Open Farm Week! Monday, September 13th – Sunday, September 19th This year, Adirondack Harvest Festival: Open Farm Week will be hosted in-person with events spread out across the region! Visit Adirondack Harvest’s Facebook page and website for a complete calendar of events, like…
Campfire Banana Boat S’mores
Summer is at its peak, so what better time to have a tasty treat with a roaring campfire? Banana Boat S’mores are one of the many foods you can have fun with making as you can with eating. The best part is you can add any topping you like: Classic: one banana, chocolate, marshmallow, graham…
Reviving History
In honor of Memorial Day this week our Veterans Coming Home Series Producer Michael Hansen has the story of an Army Veteran who on a visit to a cemetery found a gravesite almost entirely overgrown with sod & moss. When he peeled it back, he discovered it was a veteran’s marker. That’s how Carl Benware’s…
Budget Issues and Questions about Prison Closures and Marijuana
State lawmakers and Governor Cuomo reach an agreement on a 175-billion dollar budget. The deal includes allowing the Governor to close up to 3 more state prisons. We talk with Assemblyman Billy Jones about the possibility of another North Country prison being targeted for closure. We also discuss whether the legislature will vote on legalizing…
Listing of Adirondack and North Country Breweries in the Area
I don’t always drink beer for episodes of Northbound and Around, but when I do… I drink local craft brew. That may seem like a cushy gig, but with so many places and so much to cover it was quite an effort to even touch on a small fraction of this fast growing industry. All…
The Squirrel and His Caramel Corn
When winter’s first gusts of cold blow into the region, I predictably squirrel myself away indoors under a pile of fleece with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of caramel corn, mozzarella sticks and streaming television. My first winter in the North Country, I tried. I promise, I really tried to get outside and do something during…
Expanding Cell Coverage
Legislative leaders from the North Country speak out in support of expanding cell phone coverage in the Adirondacks and Northern Tier. They also weighed in at a recent Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Forum on the study proposed by the Governor to look at legalizing recreational marijuana use in New York.