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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By NAJ WIKOFF The first World Cup Ski Jumping competition in the United States that featured both men and women jumpers was in Lake Placid from Feb. 6 to 9. In another first on the international level, the women received parity in prize money with the men. As is true in many sports, male ...

The full moon is shining in through my window as I type this column for Valentine’s Day. It is very early in the morning. Across the street, huge plow trucks are clearing mountainous piles of snow in the moonlight. They are loading what must be tons of snow into dump trucks that cart it ...