On Friday, Feb. 28, the Mount Van Hoevenberg and Ski Jump crew installed a 10- by 15-foot mural representing the U.S. flag on the sliding track finish platform as U.S. bobsled and Skeleton athletes and their competitors arrived in Lake Placid to begin their final training and practice runs ...
The majestic trees guarding the North Elba Cemetery in Lake Placid have to come down. They are old and diseased. Some of the trees have already fallen on their own damaging graves. According to the article in The Lake Placid News of April 28, 1916, the trees were planted by the Lake Placid ...
The other day I visited the Lake Placid Public Library for the first time. It was a wonderful experience, and I wondered why I had never thought to go there before. From Main Street the library looks small, but once you go inside you realize there are rooms and rooms at several levels. For ...
On Monday, well over 125 people, many representing a range of nonprofit agencies, for-profit businesses, local governments, and other interests, converged on Albany to speak to elected Senators and members of the Assembly in all districts on the importance of protecting our natural ...
“I smoked cigarettes only for two years in my 20s. It felt much harder to quit nine months of e-cigarette use at age 35. The NY Quitline was instrumental in providing support; I wouldn’t have been able to become tobacco-free on my own.” The Heart Network was — forgive the pun — ...
It was exactly 45 years ago this month when the Miracle on Ice occurred. I was there, and this morning I took out the sizable file of memories I’ve saved for all these years, something I do pretty much every Feb. 22. Old newspapers, copies of Sports Illustrated, an official 1980 Lake ...