LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Center for the Arts is partnering with the New York State Council on the Arts to give out $650,000 in grants to artists and arts organizations looking to build their audiences and strengthen artistic connections with their local communities. There are two ...

KEENE — Russell Banks, a leading author of America, died on Saturday, Jan. 7 at his home surrounded by his family at the age of 82. His editor, Dan Halpern, told The Associated Press that Banks was being treated for cancer. The author of 21 books, two made into the award-winning films ...

NEW YORK -- Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical ...

SARANAC LAKE — As part of the Saranac Village at Will Rogers’ Road to Retirement series, at 1 p.m. next Wednesday, Jim Griebsch will present “Hotel Hope,” a film about the history of the Will Rogers’ Memorial Hospital, where tuberculosis patients from the entertainment industry came ...

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Film Festival returns to the Olympic village for four days of film screenings, special events and seminars on Thursday, Oct. 20 to Sunday, Oct. 23. Various venues around the village will play host, including the High Peaks Resort (festival headquarters), Palace ...

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Film Festival returns to the Olympic village for four days of film screenings, special events and seminars on Thursday, Oct. 20 to Sunday, Oct. 23. Various venues around the village will play host, including the High Peaks Resort (festival headquarters), Palace ...