LAKE PLACID — The year was 1988. The Winter Games were in Calgary. Western Canada would be the most unlikely place where a group of Jamaican track and field athletes would gain notoriety as bobsledders. Yet those Games produced one of the Olympics most endearing stories, one that lives to ...
LAKE PLACID — Mya Marshall has two loves: Studio art and Chick-fil-A. Last year, in her freshman art class at Lake Placid Middle/High School, she decided to combine them as a project. The result was a paper mache bottle of Chick-fil-A sauce almost 4 feet tall. “I just really like ...
LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Film Festival this week announced the full lineup of films and programs included in this year’s 22nd edition of the region’s premier film festival, running Thursday, Oct. 26 to Sunday, Oct. 29. Screenings for the festival will take place at the Lake ...
SARANAC LAKE — If you live in Lake Placid or Tupper Lake, keep your eyes peeled for the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Machine this winter. Created in collaboration with visiting writer Erin Dorney, the repurposed gumball machine distributes free, pocket-sized poems. The Poetry ...
KEENE VALLEY — Dar Williams adjusted her guitar strap and microphone stand as the auditorium lights dimmed around her. A spotlight appeared. The audience fell silent and still as she played the opening notes of her song “Today and Everyday.” This is typical for Williams; she has ...
SARANAC LAKE — What happens when the world goes right? New York Times best-selling author Neal Shusterman explored this question and discussed his work with hundreds of middle and high school students Friday, Sept. 22 at an event in the Harrietstown Town Hall hosted by the Adirondack Center ...