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Peter Seward is painting modern-day icons, but they don’t have anything to do with religion. Except, perhaps, in the eyes of viewers who think technology is God. The Lake Placid-based artist’s exhibit, “The Tower of Babel,” opened at the Westport Depot Theatre last Saturday.... Read more

Four. Thirty. Five.

That’s the price per gallon of gas in Saranac Lake, N.Y., and the motivation behind a marketing ploy at Pendragon Theatre.

To encourage carpooling and relieve a parking crunch, the Pendragon is giving drivers of high-occupancy vehicles $5 off admission to summer series shows. Drive in with three people or more, and you can buy a gallon of gas, a couple of cookies at intermission, whatever.... Read more

Martin Scorsese’s been there. Milos Forman, too. But the annual Lake Placid Film Forum bears little resemblance to the paparazzi-ridden chaos of Sundance. It doesn’t even sell advance tickets. It’s a calm weekend in a calm little town — this year, June 12-15 — where you might just see big faces in film.... Read more

No one consulted Alan Yandow before the announcement, last November, that Gov. Jim Douglas wanted to turn the Vermont Lottery over to private investors.... Read more

Like many population centers in upstate New York, downtown Plattsburgh has more than a few dust-ridden, vacant storefronts. On Brinkerhoff Street, though, workers are currently restoring the Strand Theatre, a massive, vaudeville-era building that’s fallen into disrepair. When it’s completed, in 2009, the restored cultural center will provide a much-needed boost to local merchants, not to mention the greater North Country economy. Make that greater North Country creative economy.... Read more

Daily commutes can be tough, especially when there's a lake in your way. Just ask Jonathan Nelson. Every weekday at 7 a.m., this software pro steps out of his wife's car in Plattsburgh, waves goodbye to their three children, and boards a ferry for a 12-minute ride. Then he climbs into a second car he's left parked at the Grand Isle ferry landing, and drives it half an hour to his Colchester office.... Read more

MONTPELIER - A New England environmental group that typically targets large corporate polluters has included two unlikely names on its 2006 list of "Dirty Dozen" polluters - New York's environmental regulatory agency and Vermont's largest operator of waste recycling programs.... Read more

MONTPELIER - With Attorney General William Sorrell by his side, Governor Jim Douglas vowed Monday that Vermont will "exhaust all our legal options" to stop a proposed test-burn of shredded tires at the International Paper (IP) mill in Ticonderoga, New York. Sorrell also announced his intention to file an 11th-hour appeal of last month's New York Supreme Court ruling, which denied Vermont's petition to stop a burn permit from being issued.... Read more

Rouses Point has seen better days. Last fall the town's number-one employer, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, announced its impending departure; the drug company employs a tenth of Rouses Point's 2350 residents and, until recently, ranked as the largest private employer in the North Country. In a recent New York Times article the mayor described the potential impact of the job losses as "Rouses Point's 9/11."... Read more

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Swanton, Vermont, is dairy country. Travel down Swanton's Middle Road, and you're surrounded by pasture. The driveways lead to farmhouses, barns and tall, silver silos.

But there's another kind of silo here, too. Not far from town is a long, unmarked driveway, a little wider and straighter than the others. It leads to a pair of round-roofed, metal buildings called Quonset huts, which are partly obscured by a stand of trees and surrounded by a barbed-wire fence.... Read more