May 20, 2012

ARISE announces Chair Lift 3 to open at Big Tupper for 2010!

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Jim LaValley, president of ARISE, announced this week that plans to re-open Chair 3 are in the making. “I’ve talked to a lot of people and they’re saying to do this, Mr. LaValley told the Free Press on Monday. “The community wants this project development to happen. This is one small way of showing that.”

Chamber Business Spotlight: Cabin Fever Floral and Gifts

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The ARISE Business Council is highlighting local businesses with the help of The Tupper Lake Free Press. Cabin Fever Floral and Gifts is the first business in our series.

Tupper Lake History: Uncle Mart and Aunt Minerva Moody

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Museum artifacts don’t always give us the big picture or tell us how we lived way back when, in simpler times. Sometimes a watch is just a watch. Or is it?

New Street Banners Coming to Town

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ARISE and the ARISE Business Council, in partnership with the Town & Village of Tupper Lake and The Wild Center, will be installing 50 new street signs throughout Tupper Lake over the next couple of weeks. These new, colorful signs will provide residents and visitors a consistent, welcoming look as they drive throughout the community. [...]

Tupper Lake resident Cliff Levers featured in The Adirondack Daily Enterprise

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Tupper Lake native Cliff Levers, who was instrumental in getting Chair 2 running which allowed for the re-opening of the Big Tupper Ski Area this year, was profiled in The Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

Hone your gardening skills at the Tupper Lake Community Garden

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The Town of Tupper Lake is once again sponsoring a Community Garden at the Town Hall. The garden is full for 2010, but you can get your name on the list for next year’s expanded garden.

Rising Stars Take on Classic Orphan Tale

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What’s better entertainment than a bunch of girls with attitude, a rich guy who falls in love with his secretary, con artists who can’t be trusted and an orphan who finally finds the family she always dreamed of?

Video from the Bergan Flannigan Fund Raiser at Big Tupper

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We wanted to share this video from the very special day at Big Tupper in support of  Bergan Flannigan (1st Lieutenant, US Army) who was severely wounded in combat while serving our country in Afghanistan.  Bergan is the daughter of Billy and Amy Arsenault of Tupper Lake. All proceeds from ticket sales at Big Tupper [...]

Trains, Tupper Lake and Some Very Special Bricks

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Decades before the Adirondack Railway Preservation Society resurrected railroad service on sections of Dr. William Seward Webb’s “Golden Chariot” tracks in the 1990s, a group of railroad buffs celebrated Adirondack train history by riding from Utica to Lake Placid and back. On their way to the Olympic village, they passed the recently abandoned Tupper Lake [...]

Adirondack Retreat – My Midlife Journey to Wholeness

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Heeding the call of her soul at midlife, one woman retreats to Tupper Lake in the Adirondack Mountains for a year—a full four seasons to digest the events of her life and connect to her deepest and highest self. The overwhelming challenges and events of the past had led her to a life-changing decision and [...]