The FIS Freestyle World Cup individual finals were moved from Deer Valley, Utah, to Lake Placid and held in conjunction with the Stifel Lake Placid Freestyle Cup, a previously scheduled FIS World Cup planned for the weekend of Jan. 11-12. The outcome was Lake Placid hosted back-to-back World ...
“Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.” “As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back. For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and ...
In 1979, Art Jubin founded the Cascade Ski Touring Center and, a few years later, launched his full moon parties, which featured skiing along marginally lit trails to bonfires where people could toast marshmallows and hot dogs and quaff beer from kegs. The wrap was skiing back to the lodge, ...
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? “Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne!” — Robert Burns Already, 2026 has begun on an interesting note, with the United States abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, ...
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 ...