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GARDEN CLUB NEWS: Lake Placid Garden Club hands out Green Thumb Awards

As this garden season draws to a close, Garden Club of Lake Placid recognized several residential gardeners with a Green Thumb award for brightening their neighborhood with colorful flower displays. Recognizing the efforts and time which goes into gardening, four home owners were ...

ON THE SCENE: The other ‘Miracle on Ice’

The other “Miracle on Ice” is the impact that Sonja Henie had not just on the United States during the 1932 Winter Olympics, but through the media, on people the world over. In Lake Placid, the then European phenom took our country by storm, lifting the spirits of so many beaten down ...

MARTHA SEZ: ‘What if it’s warm enough to wear flipflops?’

As a marker that the season has changed, the last Keene Valley Farmers Market was held Sunday, Oct. 12. Beset by swarms of yellow jackets — particularly at stations selling maple syrup, wine and other beverages and comestibles fancied by these brazen insects — and threatened by gusting ...

ADIRONDACK FILM: The character of light

When lighting designer Justyn T. Davis discussed light, I thought of the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus and his famous saying about rivers. The exact phrasing is unknown, but the most common version is, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and ...