Wear your, for safety's sake
To the editor and residents of Lake Placid:
The Lake Placid Police Department would like to announce the launch of the “Click It or Ticket” campaign to boost safety belt use and to save lives.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), nearly one in five Americans still fail to regularly wear their safety belts when driving or riding in a motor vehicle.
Among those least likely to buckle up are young males, pickup truck drivers and their passengers, people living in rural areas and nighttime drivers.
That’s why the Lake Placid Police Department has announced that they are joining other state and local law enforcement agencies from May 19 through June 1 for an aggressive national “CLICK IT OR TICKET” mobilization to crack down on New York’s safety belt law violators.
Safety belt checkpoints and other stepped-up law enforcement activities will be conducted during the national “Click It or Ti
Cold dip brings warm feelings
To the editor:
The Lake Placid Middle School Builders Club would like to thank the following people and organizations for their generous support of our first annual “Plunge for a Cause” on April 29, 2008. With the support of our sponsors
Thanks for a successful village cleanup
Dear Editor,
I hope you have noticed the difference in the appearance of our village streets after the annual Lake Placid Village Cleanup. Nearly 150 village residents, students and friends did their part to beautify our neighborhoods an
Not the way to lay off workers
To the editor:
I am the former closing coordinator for The Whiteface Lodge Real Estate Office.
Note that I used the word “former.” I held that position until Friday, April 18, when I was called at home and informed that I no
Obama, a dangerous misreading
To the editor:
As a lifelong Democrat — having voted in 11 Presidential elections without once voting for a Republican — I see this year differently.
First, Mr. Obama — whom I expect to win the Democratic nomination — seems
Students should embrace the Miracle on Ice
To the editor: I agree with Sandy Caligiore’s remarks concerning the Miracle on Ice in the recent article published in the Lake Placid News. (“It’s no miracle). The event is iconic. It’s comparable to Washington’s crossing the Delaware and the clas
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