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May/June 2017 NewsBeat 3 Andy Flynn is the editor of the Lake Placid News and lives in Saranac Lake. He is a graduate of the Tupper Lake High School and SUNY College at Fredonia, earning a bachelor's degree in communication in 1991. He has more than 25 years of experience in the media and public relations fields. In his spare time, Flynn has written and self-published nine books, mostly about Adirondack history. He also tells stories about artifacts at New York's many museums as the producer/host of the "Adirondack Attic" radio show on North Country Public Radio and writer of the syndicated "Stories from the Attic" newspaper column. Flynn worked at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News as a writer and editor from 1994 to 2001. From 2001 to 2009, he worked as the senior public information specialist at the Adirondack Park Agency Visitor Interpretive Center in Paul Smiths. He was self-employed in 2009 and 2010, publishing books and local community guides. From 2011 to 2013, he was assistant managing editor at Denton Publications in Elizabethtown, returning to the Lake Placid News in October 2013. Flynn has garnered merits of excellence from the National Newspaper Association, New York Newspaper Publishers Association and the New York Press Association. While the Lake Placid News staff writer, he was named the 1996 NYPA Writer of the Year for weekly newspapers with circulations under 10,000. Catherine Moore has been publisher for the daily newspaper, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and the weekly newspaper the Lake Placid News, both located in the Adirondack Park of northern New York . She started in 1973, just after the newspapers went from hot lead to web offset. Starting in the circulation department, the plan was just to be temporary until finishing college to be an art instructor. Her career took a turn as she found a creative outlet, helping in the advertising department. Loving the newspaper business led her to be promoted to ad sales, ad manager, and eventually publisher in 1989. Andy Flynn, Lake Placid News win huge by keeping USA Luge in Lake Placid Proudest moments have been our coverage of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games held in Lake Placid, with winning awards for the Daily Olympic Digest. A 40 page tabloid published daily for 14 days of the games. They have since sent reporters to the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Vancover, Sochi, and plans are underway to be at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang in South Korea. The NYPA was instrumental in sponsoring a reporter in Sochi to send photos and coverage of NYPA member's local athletes. Catherine is married to Jack Moore and has two married children with two grandchildren and lives in Saranac Lake. President of the New York News Publishers Association Foundation, Past President and now board member of the New York Press Association, and Vice-President of the Tri-Lakes Humane Society "Being on the board of the New York Press Association offers stimulating discussions to share ideas, seek new opportunities and initiate solutions, to better serve our readers into the future." Catherine added.

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