Should (or could) Lake Placid host another Olympics? Not alone, but worth exploring was the consensus of the well-attended panel discussion held at the Mount Van Hoevenberg base lodge on Thursday, Jan. 22. Organized by the Adirondack Explorer, sponsored by the Adirondack Council and ...
How much snow did you get? A winter storm that meteorologists are calling potentially historic started in the Pacific Ocean off the Baja Peninsula of California last Thursday, Jan. 22, and cut a swath about 2,000 miles long across the country before exiting off Cape Cod on Jan. 26. The ...
The Lake Placid Public Library offers support for many new years’ needs, including tax preparation, wellness programming and new titles to support skill building. - Tai Chi Flow for seniors - Held every Thursday from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in January and February, enjoy ...
On Thursday evening, Jan. 15, around 1,200 people, many having arrived from distant places across the United States, came to attend a holographic presentation of the iconic 1980 hockey game between the United States and the Soviet Union, presented and documented in the Olympic Center’s Herb ...
January. The beginning of the New Year! In November 2025, we celebrated Thanksgiving and then, in December, the winter solstice. We celebrated Christmas, and then we celebrated New Year’s Eve, 2026. The Martin Luther King long weekend is over, so now it is just winter. Bundle up! Wear ...
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 ...