Erika Fabian is not a stranger to the readers of the Lake Placid News. She was featured several times in the pages of this paper as a child survivor of the Holocaust. Tamara Dietrich, in a 2018 Daily Press article, described Erika as a person who spent much of her childhood in hiding, in ...
Chamber meeting - Forty members attended the seventh Chamber of Commerce meeting of the present year at the Lakeside Inn, and President Swift suggested that the meeting be as informal as possible. The matter of providing a suitable public toboggan slide was first considered and the ...
Death by suicide has impacted many families in the North Country. A decade ago, suicide deaths in Essex County were in the double digits, resulting in the sad distinction of our county having one of the highest rates in the state. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of the members of the ...
Talk about close! My parents, politically active Democrats, used to tell the story of the 1948 presidential election, how disappointed they were the morning of Nov. 3 by the Chicago Daily Tribune’s headline “Dewey Defeats Truman!” In a major upset, Harry S. Truman, who had ascended ...
Garden Club of Lake Placid members were guests of the Hot House in Saranac Lake and Mercy Care for the Adirondacks for a workshop of making terrariums. Supplies and plants were provided so members and Friendship Volunteers of Mercy Care could create their own xeriscape environment in small ...
School addition - Shovels took their first bite of earth from the site for the school addition on Wednesday. Long awaited by the school’s students and teachers, the actual start of digging operations was greeted with enthusiasm by those anxious for more commodious accommodations in ...