The Downtown Diner on Main Street is closing, and with it, another iconic local business passes. Doing so, it wraps up a year that also saw the closure of Lamb Lumber, a business that served the community for over 100 years. Lake Placid used to have several similar establishments with a ...
As I write this column, we are in that strange no man’s land between Christmas and the New Year. There is always such a terrific buildup approaching Christmas, and then it is just — gone. The very concept of Christmas, so ubiquitous, so powerfully inspirational and evocative, so ...
To the editor: Winter arrived early in Lake Placid this year, settling in by early November and showing little sign of letting up. For skiers and outdoor enthusiasts, the early snow has been a gift, with ski centers opening ahead of schedule and trails reaching mid-winter conditions weeks ...
The FIL Luge World Cup, scheduled for Dec. 18 to 20, was much more than an Olympic trial for the athletes; it was its own kind of trial for the track crew at Mount Van Hoevenberg, which faced daunting odds caused by a brutal weather system that arrived on day two of the race. Few people ...
It all seems so sudden, but, as I write this, it’s almost Christmas. Some people I know are so organized! My friends Charla and Annie, for example, would never understand the cartoon I’m about to draw. In my mind’s eye I see a woman smiling proudly as she gazes at a little handmade ...
(Editor’s note: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper ...