Garden planning began in earnest for seasoned gardeners when seed catalogs started arriving in January and as flower related ads increased online. Our single-digit days were a little less brutal when surveying seed offerings from favorite suppliers. Now months later, seed displays greet ...
I can see a robin and a crocus in my yard. Some kind of partially frozen precipitation, about the consistency of a Slurpee, is falling on them both. It was April 15, tax day, almost 34 years ago, when my daughter Molly and I hit town. We had just come from Boca Grande, Fla., and it seemed ...
On Saturday, March 29, Marie Cogar was crowned the 20th Mad Hatter at the annual Mad Hatter’s Benefit for Creative Healing Connections held at the Hotel Saranac. In addition, board president Helene Gibbens announced that the organization will once again hold traditional two-night retreats ...
Dear Editor, The Lake Placid Alumni Association is one of the oldest alumni associations in the country. One of its missions is to assist alumni in continuing their education. In that endeavor, the association is now accepting applications for its alumni scholarship. All recipients must ...
Dear Editor, Let’s not cut Medicaid to gift money to billionaires. In our NY21 district, Medicaid covers 92,000 children — over one third, as well as 4,300 pregnant moms each year. New York kids on Medicaid/CHIP get free vaccines. They aren’t dying of measles or paralyzed by polio, ...
Champions and historians of skiing were celebrated in Lake Placid over March 26 to 30, while another, the most accomplished US cross-country skier in history, Jessie Diggins, was burning up the Mount Van Hoevenberg course. As a consequence, it was nearly a perfect storm of skiing ...