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LIBRARY NEWS: AARP volunteer tax help begins at Lake Placid Public Library

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 THE SCENE: Recapturing the Miracle on Ice

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 ...

ON THE SCENE: FIS Freestyle athletes overcome fear and weather

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 ...

ON THE SCENE: Lake Placid’s full moon ski parties are back

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, ...