LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid High School theater students are going under the sea this week to give a four-show performance of the musical “The Little Mermaid.” Performances of “The Little Mermaid” will be held in the Lake Placid Middle High School auditorium at 7 p.m. this Thursday ...

LAKE PLACID — When the North Country Ballet Ensemble disbanded last summer, the North Country’s annual performance of “The Nutcracker” was without a host company. Tiffany Rea-Fisher, artistic director for the Lake Placid School of Dance and New York City’s EMERGE125 company, said ...

SARANAC LAKE — First Night, Saranac Lake’s villagewide alcohol-free celebration of the arts on New Year’s Eve, has been canceled for a second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic. A statement from the First Night board says this was a “difficult” and “painful” ...

LAKE PLACID — Documentarian Raoul Peck, who created “I Am Not Your Negro” and “Exterminate All the Brutes,” was honored by a local volunteer organization during a visit to the John Brown Farm State Historic Site on Sunday, Oct. 24. The event followed Peck’s appearance at the Lake ...

LAKE PLACID — Artist Monica Sara Mzese is just 17 years old, but she’s already booked her first gallery showing at the Upper Jay Art Center. The Lake Placid High School junior said she’s always communicated through drawing. Mzese’s adoptive mom, Noel Carmichael, said her daughter ...

LAKE PLACID — A year before the Adirondack Mountain Club and its first major project — the Northville-Placid Trail — celebrate their 100th anniversary, there’s a new book detailing the place names along the 138-mile hiking path. Erik Schlimmer self-published his book “From ...