Even though the Empire State Winter Games has grown from a Lake Placid event to an Adirondack event — with venues across the North Country — it still benefits Lake Placid in a big way and we are thankful to all the partners who continue to keep the games going. The event is being held ...

Now that our reporters and editors have experienced their first FISU Winter World University Games, we’re still trying to process the impacts of the event on the region’s residents, visitors and communities. We’re still talking to people about their experiences and what they think ...

There are a number of watershed moments in Lake Placid’s history, and we’re living through one of them right now — the Lake Placid 2023 FISU Winter World University Games. For years — as promises of new affordable housing were made and millions of dollars gushed from New York ...

Hundreds of functions in the North Country depend on volunteers. People are fed and clothed, the ill and injured are cared for, fires are extinguished, artists’ work is promoted, libraries are maintained, events are planned and the natural environment is curated by volunteers. In March, as ...

In Lake Placid, the school colors of blue and gold have been a great source of pride for more than 90 years. And as the blue-and-yellow flags of Ukraine were being installed on Main Street light poles in March, pride in this color combination took on new meaning for residents and visitors of ...

(Editor’s note: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper ...