Tina Bruce, a bookstore sales clerk at Clinton Community College, talks to Jessica Zhang, one of about 20 new students who arrived last week to start classes at the college Monday. Area college bookstores have been busy as students prepare for the fall semester.(Staff Photo/Kelli Catana)

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The streets of Lake Placid have been crowded with shoppers this summer while much of the nation has seen a downward trend in sales. The Olympic Village is hoping to see one of the best summers in occupancy-tax revenue in a decade.(P-R Photo/Jack LaDuke)

Hikers enjoy a rest on the summit of Noonmark Mountain while enjoying the panoramic views afforded by this majestic mountain. It earned its name because the peak is located almost directly south of Keene Valley and marks noon when the sun is directly over the summit. (P-R Photo/Joanne Kennedy)

Bleyton Hopps Thompson, 4, of Hogansburg proudly displays his lacrosse stick at the Krunch Klassic lacrosse tournament held over the weekend on the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation. Organized by Gabe Oakes, manager of the Kanienkehaka Kruch elite and travel lacrosse team, the tournament benefited the Akwesasne Eagle Watch, a group of activists fighting drug abuse in the Iroquois community and beyond. Drawing teams from four different reservations throughout New York state and Canada, the tournament was won by the Mullets, a squad boasting highly touted players from Syracuse University, Dartmouth College and several destined for the University at Albany.(P-R Photo/Casey Ryan Vock)

$Kristie Hart (left), a refractive surgical coordinator; and eye surgeon Dr. Robert Johnson demonstrate the use of a pentacam, a device that measures the curvature and power of the cornea at Eye Care of the Adirondacks.(P-R Photo/Andrew Wyatt)$

Tina Bruce, a bookstore sales clerk at Clinton Community College, talks to Jessica Zhang, one of about 20 new students who arrived last week to start classes at the college Monday. Area college bookstores have been busy as students prepare for the fall semester.(Staff Photo/Kelli Catana)

Clinton Community College's Morgan Roussy (right) tries to move the ball around teammate Molly Bowen during women's soccer practice Friday.(P-R Photo/Gabe Dickens)

Sen. Charles Schumer reviews progress on the Conference Center at Lake Placid with Olympic Regional Development Authority CEO and President Ted Blazer. Work on the Conference Center has progressed since the state-ordered halt due to budget concerns this spring. It will become the new home for the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism, the Essex County tourism planning office. Amid funding shortfalls, ORDA venues could benefit from new legislation in the U.S. Travel Regional Investment Partnership Act (TRIP Act). Announced Friday by Schumer, the measure is slated to create a grant program for infrastructure and cooperative tourism destination projects. Funding of up to $1 million would support public-private tourism programs that incite economic activity and create jobs.(Staff Photo/Kim Smith Dedam)

Lorraine Chilson, a master gardener with Cornell Cooperative Extension, stands in front of one of her raised beds during a garden tour Aug. 7 at her home in Altona. When she and her husband built their home five years ago, she was faced with the challenge of gardening in poor, sandy soil. One of the solutions was to build beds that she then filled with her own mix of soil and compost.(P-R Photo/Melissa Hart)

Second-year Jersey Supreme asparagus has a special box to itself in Lorraine Chilson's backyard vegetable garden.(P-R Photo/Melissa Hart)

Tina Bruce, a bookstore sales clerk at Clinton Community College, talks to Jessica Zhang, one of about 20 new students who arrived last week to start classes at the college Monday. Area college bookstores have been busy as students prepare for the fall semester.

(Staff Photo/Kelli Catana)