Amy Feiereisel

We pay a late summer visit to some of the tallest white pines in North America in The Adirondack Park in northern New York, one of the few places you can still find the old white pines.

During the first week of June, a number of students at Massena’s high school began wearing rainbow apparel to mark the start of the month: shirts, pins, colors in their hair. Students also work rainbow flags as capes. Patrick Brady, the superintendent at Massena Central School, said "this led to some students, a couple of students bringing in a Confederate flag."

Now that Canada is no longer requiring COVID-19 tests from vaccinated travelers, tourism is up in many U.S. border communities. In New York, Plattsburgh is seeing a big increase in tourism.

A new state grant program aims to bring providers online in child care deserts. It's called Child Care Deserts Grants, a new state initiative funded by federal stimulus money. It’s putting $70 million towards getting new providers up and running across the state.

Maple sap is being gathered to make maple sugar. A crew in Keene, N.Y., has been working in an 80-acre sugar bush. They will tap 10,000 maple trees in the next few weeks.

Emergency Medical Technicians are in short supply in many parts of the country. That's the case in rural Sackets Harbor, N.Y., where high school students are answering the call.

A 10-day quarantine can be a huge educational setback. Missed tests. Little or no instruction time. No extra help from teachers. And there are some students who have already gone through two or three quarantines.