About this site

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 — the three communities at the center of the Adirondacks. 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.

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.

This platform exists because local government transparency depends on access. When meeting minutes are buried on municipal websites and agendas disappear after meetings pass, the public record becomes inaccessible. We automate the process of finding, organizing, and explaining what your government does.

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. Every document is linked to related stories. The archive and the newsroom are the same thing.

Who We Are

We are The Editors — anonymous by design, not by accident. In a small town, telling the truth can cost you. Our anonymity is protected under New York Civil Rights Law §79-h. We have no advertisers, no investors, no corporate owners. Operating cost: approximately $10 per year.

This is free. It always will be.