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 — Students from Lake Placid’s schools marched in the annual Halloween parade up Main Street Tuesday, Oct. 31. They were joined by the Lake Placid Middle/High School Marching Band, Lake Placid police and an engine from the Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department.

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 ...

AuSABLE FORKS — Nine students sat in an AuSable Forks Elementary School classroom after school Monday, Oct. 23, facing a smart board where teacher Liz Donahue was typing ideas for a Halloween-inspired poll. They were writing a poll — brainstorm style — to be included in their first ...

ESSEX — Essex Food Hub has been awarded a $100,000 grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm to School Grant program. EFH is one of 103 awardees across the nation and among just 16 selected in the northeast region. Funds from the grant will be used over the next 12 months to ...

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 ...