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Photos: The Challenge of the ‘Adirondack 46′

Posted on September 12th, 2011 by Jackie Keating

While working for the Adirondack Park this summer as an educator in the High Peaks Information Center, I made it my personal goal to hike half of the 46 high peaks of the Adirondacks.

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Hide-and-Seek a Bad Idea, Says Babysitter

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Jackie Keating

By Jackie Keating Last Friday, Craig and Emily Johnson were enjoying a night out together when they received a distressed call from Jenny Smith, the 16-year-old they hired to babysit their son for the evening. “She asked me if there was a secret room anywhere in the house where Andy [our 6-year-old son] likes to [...]

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Local Teen Horrified at the Sight of Mother Entering Victoria’s Secret

Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Jackie Keating

By Jackie Keating “It was one of those things where you felt like you were watching from the outside, like it wasn’t really happening to you.” These are the words of Stevie Marshall upon discussing his traumatizing experience at the Ithaca Mall last week. Stevie was unfortunate enough to be confronted by every teen’s worst [...]

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