In search of lifeguards

In her first summer lifeguarding at a state beach in the southern Adirondacks, Madison MacFarland rescued a 5-year-old boy who got in over his head, and helped retrieve a handful of kayakers and canoeists who overturned in Great Sacandaga Lake.

“It was quite an experience,” she said. A student at Sage College this spring, MacFarland intends to return to the lake’s Northampton Beach this summer if everything works out.

The Department of Environmental Conservation will need her. Despite publicly promoting the job, which pays more than $13 an hour and with most sites offering free housing, there has been a shortage of DEC

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