LAKE PLACID — Tate Frantz sat on the cold bar of the HS100 ski jump on Feb. 12 waiting to soar through the air. Behind him was no one. In front of him was a bunch of eager jumpers and were spectators waiting to see his result. The Lake Placid native was in first place in the FIS Nordic ...
PAUL SMITHS — The Lake Placid boys and the Saranac Lake girls Nordic ski teams were crowned Section VII champions on Feb. 12, following the second and final day of sectional races. Racing at the Paul Smith’s Visitor Information Center, the Section VII teams closed out the season with ...
LAKE PLACID — Just outside the Lake Placid High School gymnasium, there’s a trophy case with three basketballs for each of the school’s 1,000-point scorers. None of them have been touched years. But soon, they’ll need to rearranged to make room for a fourth ball. On Wednesday, ...
LAKE PLACID — The USA Ski Jumping team had one of its best World Cup outings in recent years on its home soil this past weekend. Americans Kevin Bickner and Tate Frantz posted top-20 results on back-to-back days in the men’s jumping events. While in the first-ever women’s World Cup ...
LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid varsity boys and girls Nordic ski teams swept the Section VII Nordic Invitational at their home course at Mount Van Hoevenberg Saturday morning. The Blue Bomber boys won the varsity meet with a total of 19 points, followed by Guilderland, in second, with ...
LAKE PLACID — A season ago, the Tupper Lake boys hockey team swept Saranac Lake Placid in three straight games. But this year, SLP got its revenge. The SLP boys completed the three-game season sweep over the Lumberjacks with a 8-1 rout on Jan. 24 during the Lake Placid Winter Carnival ...