A staff report notes that candidates in the NY-21 House race will be in Albany this evening for the first of three debates ahead of the November election. 

Reporter Chris Knight reports that the owner of a resort on Lower Saranac Lake is working with four prospective buyers of the property. 

Reporter Brian Nearing reports that opponents of a scaled-back and long-delayed proposed $400 million luxury Catkills ski resort next to state-owned Belleayre ski center want the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which is poised to issue permits for the project, to instead scrutinize it further. 

Reporter Chris Knight reports that in Mountain Communications owner Ted Morgan must pay Essex County more than $35,000 in delinquent taxes by the end of today, or the properties where the local radio stations are headquartered will be put up for public auction.