“I’m not watching the news,” people say. “I can’t stand it. If I have to hear about” — say, for example — “the radioactive wild boars of Fukushima one more time, I’ll take the bridge!” Then, all at once, the subject is dropped, and we never hear of it again. Another topic ...

On Friday, Feb. 28, the Mount Van Hoevenberg and Ski Jump crew installed a 10- by 15-foot mural representing the U.S. flag on the sliding track finish platform as U.S. bobsled and Skeleton athletes and their competitors arrived in Lake Placid to begin their final training and practice runs ...

On Monday, well over 125 people, many representing a range of nonprofit agencies, for-profit businesses, local governments, and other interests, converged on Albany to speak to elected Senators and members of the Assembly in all districts on the importance of protecting our natural ...

The other day I visited the Lake Placid Public Library for the first time. It was a wonderful experience, and I wondered why I had never thought to go there before. From Main Street the library looks small, but once you go inside you realize there are rooms and rooms at several levels. For ...

As daylight hours increase, the library continues to experience high levels of activity due to many taking advantage of the AARP volunteers, who generously dedicate their time to assist with tax preparation. The volunteers will be available until March 15. If anyone is interested in this ...

I have become fascinated with gnocchi. Why? I don’t know. My preoccupation with gnocchi, like my compulsion to work inscrutable Victorian crochet patterns and grow wild toadflax from seed, is a mystery even to me. Perhaps the fascination began, not with the actual food, which I had never ...