On an overcast and somewhat dreary day, Dmitry Day on Saturday, Aug. 30 shone with great music, snakes and a sloth, delightful food, and engaging activities that included learning how to luge. Dmitry’s Feast of the Peaks is a trimmed-down Lake Placid I Love BBQ Festival founded by the ...

Right before Labor Day, I was sitting in a waiting room at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital before a routine appointment. In the old days, doctors and dentists and hairdressers subscribed to “Time” and “Good Housekeeping” and “House and Garden” and “People.” Patients sat ...

Sarah Wilson of Keene has a new gig, serving as the executive director of the Depot Theatre in Westport, the Adirondacks Park’s oldest professional equity theater. Three months in, she seems to have been born for the job. Wilson brings to the theater decades of experience representing ...

There are certain people I would love to hear from, friends and relations, some who live nearby and some who live approximately 2,000 miles away, whose activities, thoughts and feelings are a complete mystery to me. They’re friends of mine on Facebook, so wouldn’t you think I’d at least ...

Since the day it opened, the Lake Placid Center for the Arts has needed upgrades, as the roof was never insulated and the floors were never soundproofed. Yet, over the past 50 years, the venue has served the community and the artists it presented extremely well. In a few weeks, a long-needed ...

“In August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times ...