LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid High School theater class will take to the stage Thursday night, Sept. 26 in their first performance of the season — a compilation of Broadway musical songs that give each student a chance to shine. Vocal music teacher Taylor Prosper said his main goal ...

LAKE PLACID — North Country School’s new Director of School Dr. Ashley Waldorf came to the Olympic Region from Cleveland, Ohio, where she was previously a faculty member at the Mastery School of Hawken while simultaneously pursuing a doctoral degree in education at Vanderbilt University in ...

WILMINGTON — I’m not an engineer. Calculus and physics were my kryptonite in high school, and I was fortunate enough to not have to cross paths with them in college. Derivatives could have been a foreign — or extraterrestrial — language, as far as I was concerned. Despite my ...

LAKE PLACID — Don Scammell, a source of wisdom for his children, a source of joy for his friends and a source of support for his community — known as “the beer guy” for his local beer distributing business — died at his home in Lake Placid on Sept. 13. He was 86. “As a father, he ...

LAKE PLACID — The state Olympic Regional Development Authority board on Friday, Sept. 20 approved projects aimed at further modernizing facilities at the Mount Van Hoevenberg sliding track, as well as Whiteface and Gore mountains. The board approved a $96 million project aimed at improving ...

LAKE PLACID — Nine members of Troop 10 made their way into the woods Sunday afternoon, Sept. 22. Their mission: to preserve and improve the Eagle Scout project of one of their former members. Last year, Christopher Byrne — a 2023 Lake Placid High School graduate — rebuilt the Bridge to ...