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Education

News, Enterprise sponsor writing contest for local students

SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News are sponsoring a Biography/Personal Profile writing contest for local students in grades 4 through 12. Each profile must be written about a living person. The contest is open to students in the newspapers’ readership ...

Meet the LPHS Winter Carnival king, queen candidates

LAKE PLACID — Who will be Lake Placid High School’s 2024 Winter Carnival king and queen? The school announced the candidates for king and queen on Thursday, Feb. 15, two weeks before the start of Winter Carnival, which is scheduled for Feb. 29 and March 1. The candidates — who ...

Adaptive skating program transforms Lake Placid students

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Central School District just wrapped up a new program run in partnership with the state Olympic Regional Development Authority, which allowed students with physical and cognitive disabilities to ice skate. “I have a smile on my face as I talk about ...

Parents urge LPCSD to accept private school athletes

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Central School District Board of Education fielded letters and public comments on Tuesday, Feb. 6 about the district’s decision not to pursue an athletic merger with a local private school. The district was approached by Northwood School, a Lake Placid-based ...

LPHS Winter Carnival starts on Feb. 29

LAKE PLACID — The 81st Annual Lake Placid High School Winter Carnival will take place on Thursday, Feb. 29 and Friday, March 1. The opening ceremony will be held on Feb. 29 during school hours. Coronation will be at 6 p.m. that evening in the gymnasium. This year’s Winter Carnival ...

EYE ON EDUCATION: Keene Central students compete in Science Olympiad at MIT

KEENE VALLEY — Last month, 18 high school students from Keene Central School traveled to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to compete in the MIT Science Olympiad Invitational, a single-day academic tournament packed with 23 science competitions and 72 teams from across the country. ...