Dear Editor, On behalf of the board and staff of the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, we would like to thank our entire community for an unforgettable Joy to the Children celebration. It would be impossible to adequately express our gratitude to the Weibrecht family for hosting this event and ...
Lake Placid’s Main Street has been transformed into a festive winter wonderland with twinkling lights and colorful window displays. Small business Saturday and local shopping Tuesday kicked off the holiday season followed by a weekend celebration with the LP Holiday Village Stroll. The LPPL ...
After a five-year hiatus stimulated by the COVID pandemic, Joy to the Children, the benefit in support of arts programming for youth, was held at the Mirror Lake Inn. Once again, people from around the region were decked out in their finest as they ushered in the holiday season at the ...
My friend Darla — who may one day be canonized as the patron saint of lost and hungry animals — swore up and down not long ago that she was through with pets. After her elderly miniature pinscher, Moose, died, and Peter, the diabetic stray cat she injected with insulin for years, likewise ...
On this oftentimes dreadful planet, it is hard to imagine how the words "Peace on Earth" have any true relevance anymore. To many people on this Christmas Day, that phrase is considered obsolete, just a minuscule remnant of a better time, although looking at this planet as a whole, there ...
Dear Editor, It is the time of year when I am reminded of this relevant preface to the book Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm by C. David Coats: “Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes, and dingoes ...