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 ...

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 ...