Watch or stream Friday at 8 This week, the North Country’s delegation in the New York State Legislature gives community...
Mountain Lake Journal
The award-winning magazine series exploring the people, events, issues, and diverse cultures found throughout our region. Produced and hosted by Thom Hallock.
Entire generations of traditional foods, along with the knowledge needed to grow, harvest, and prepare them, are disappearing at an alarming pace.This decline is about more than shrinking food choices; it endangers biodiversity, undermines food security, and unsettles the delicate connections among seeds, soil, and climate that have supported human communities for generations. For Indigenous peoples, seeds are not merely crops or commodities. They are living relatives that carry language, ceremony, memory, and ancestral duty: responsibilities that have long been upheld and protected by women across generations.
School Lunch Manager Barrett Miller of Plattsburgh, New York wants your kids to eat well while learning about the advantages of better food choices.Community Contributor Anna Hewitt-Channell discusses school lunches benefiting from the NOURISH program with Barrett Miller.
Watch or stream Friday at 8This week, seeds are more than just crops. They protect life on Earth, and without them, ecosystems could collapse. And a school lunch manager in Essex and Clinton counties wants to ensure your kids are getting good nutrition and a good education about healthy eating. That's on the next Mountain Lake Journal.
As efforts to bring the Winter Olympics back to Lake Placid intensify among North Country residents and state leaders, many are vividly recalling an iconic event from forty-six years ago, when the games were held in the Essex County village. Modern technology and the return of some famous figures recreated the magic of a historic February night, making the past feel present once more.
This week we bring together reporters covering the news here in the North Country to talk about some of the big stories over the past few weeks including the soaring cost of electricity this winter and some of the highest utility bills many customers have seen in years. We also...
Watch or stream Friday at 8This week, we bring together reporters covering the news here in the North Country to talk about some of the big stories over the past few weeks, including the soaring cost of electricity this winter, some of the highest utility bills many customers have seen in years. And we'll take you to the spectacular show in Lake Placid celebrating the miracle on ice on the next Mountain Lake Journal.
The Adirondack village of Saranac Lake, New York is captivating readers of a historical fiction novel by one of Canada's foremost authors, Giles Blunt. The book bears the intriguing title ofBad Juliet. It's the story of a man who takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium. There he meets a young woman with a haunting past.
The kitchen of Chef Curtiss Hemm smells of parmesan, lemon and nutmeg, as he crafts a rustic Italian dish that serves up comfort on a cold evening.
Watch or stream Friday at 8The Adirondack Mountains loom over a mysterious love story, set in the Trudeau Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York. Paul Larson chats with Canadian author Giles Blunt about his new novel Bad Juliet. Chef Curtiss Hemm crafts a rustic Italian dish.