After a five-year hiatus stimulated by the COVID pandemic, Joy to the Children, the benefit in support of arts programming for youth, was held at the Mirror Lake Inn. Once again, people from around the region were decked out in their finest as they ushered in the holiday season at the ...

My friend Darla — who may one day be canonized as the patron saint of lost and hungry animals — swore up and down not long ago that she was through with pets. After her elderly miniature pinscher, Moose, died, and Peter, the diabetic stray cat she injected with insulin for years, likewise ...

I don’t mean to alarm you, but Santa Claus is coming to town. Holiday stress is real. There is no getting around it. True, you could always decide, either for religious or practical or purely curmudgeonly reasons, to eschew the holiday season, but it is highly unlikely that you will be able ...

The Lake Placid Center for the Arts is more than the sum of its parts. One bucket of parts is the art exhibitions, concerts, arts, crafts, and dance classes, and screenings it produces. The other is the arts agencies it houses and the cultural events they present, some at the LPCA and others ...

Do you have a daughter or son planning to go to college, or if in college, will they be home for the holidays? If so, go to Bookstore Plus or your favorite bookseller and get a copy of Philip Glotzbach's recently published Embrace Your Freedom: Winning Strategies to Succeed in College and Life. ...

Curmudgeons, rejoice — but don’t let on. Just mumble your thanks surreptitiously into your oatmeal. If your glasses fog up no one will see the gleam in your eye. Curmudgeons everywhere now have the perfect vehicle for expressing and disseminating their cranky and cantankerous opinions and ...