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 ...
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 ...
Do you feel loved by our country? If so, why so; if not, why not, and what would it take to feel loved by our country? Such are the questions being asked by SUNY Plattsburgh and University of Rochester students of their classmates, teachers, and community members through a listening program ...
(Editor’s note: This is Martha Allen’s Dec. 12 column for the Lake Placid News, which did not run in last week’s issue due to space limitations. We apologize for the inconvenience.) What do Santa Claus and his elves, Bigfoot, ghosts, aliens, evil spirits and gypsy fortune tellers have ...