LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Community School’s new “Learn from the PROS” series continued Thursday, Oct. 26 with a presentation by a documentary filmmaker to sixth graders at the Lake Placid Middle/High School. Michael Ien Cohen was in town promoting his “Humanity Stoked” ...
LAKE PLACID — A century ago, a group of factory workers known as the “Radium Girls” sued the U.S. Radium Corporation after they contracted radiation poisoning from their jobs painting watch dials with radium-infused paint. This week, a group of Lake Placid high schoolers will tell ...
LAKE PLACID — Director Michael Ien Cohen’s “Humanity Stoked” — featured this week at the Lake Placid Film Festival — is much more than a skateboarding documentary; it is, as the poster describes, about “pushing through fear and moving humanity forward.” “When you’re ...
LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Film Festival kicks off Thursday, Oct. 26 for its 22nd season and will showcase more than 20 feature films and 20 short films this year through Sunday, Oct. 29. - Local interest - The festival will begin at the Palace Theatre at 7 p.m. Thursday with a ...
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 ...