About Tri-Lakes Town Square

Tri-Lakes Town Square is a civic intelligence platform that continuously monitors local government activity, converts it into structured knowledge, detects meaningful changes, and publishes human-readable explanations for residents.

We cover Saranac Lake, Lake Placid, and Tupper Lake. Every night, automated systems scrape documents from eleven government agencies, summarize them with AI, detect patterns and anomalies, and score story candidates. When something matters, we write about it in plain language and link it to the documents that prove it.

We also cover breaking news, public safety, and community events — anything that affects the people who live here. The archive backs the journalism. The journalism makes the archive matter.

The archive holds 3,559 government documents going back more than a decade — meeting minutes, budgets, resolutions, agendas, audit reports. Every document is AI-summarized, searchable, and free. It grows every night.

How It Works

Scrapers run every night across eleven agencies. Documents are summarized, dated, impact-scored, and added to the archive. Changes between versions are detected. Patterns across agencies are identified. The most significant developments surface as stories. Every story is linked to the government documents that support it.

When you tap Report, your tip goes directly into our review queue. We read everything. We publish what we can verify. Your name or anonymous — always your choice.

Who We Are

We are The Editors — anonymous by design. Our reporting may rely on protections available to qualified journalists under New York Civil Rights Law §79-h. We have no advertisers, no investors, no corporate owners. Operating cost: approximately $10 per year.

We protect sources. If you share information with us and ask us not to reveal where it came from, we will honor that. Always. Without exception.

We do not cover the town. We are the town.