Three upstate New York communities are mourning the death of Rick Emanuel, a longtime New York state newspaper industry leader who combined public service with business acumen throughout a career that included more than 20 years as a publisher.
Emanuel, 55, died unexpectedly Thursday at his home in Elmira. He was The Citizen s publisher from 1998 through 2008, when he became publisher of the Post-Star in Glens Falls.
Emanuel returned to help The Citizen as interim publisher for six months in 2013 while continuing to serve as publisher in Glens Falls. Both newspapers are owned by Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises. Most recently, Emanuel was senior director of sales for Gannett/USA Today Network, a position he began in 2019 following the merger of Gannett and GateHouse Media. He returned to his native Southern Tier region in 2014 to become GateHouse s senior group publisher for the north Atlantic region. That brought him back to the Corning Leader, where he started his newspaper
The second phase of the massive three-part floral is now on display at Desert Botanical Garden.
The installation, Wind, Water and Earth, is created by artists Natasha Lisitsa and Daniel Schultz of Waterlily Pond Studio. The floral exhibition is being installed in three parts. It began with “Wind” which went in Jan. 19. “Water” is being featured from Feb. 23 through March 22 and it ends with “Earth” from April 3-25.
“This is (Lisitsa) and (Schultz’s) first public garden installation, and I am confident Garden visitors will be as mesmerized with their creations as our team has been,” Desert Botanical Garden executive director Ken Schutz said in a press release.