LAKE PLACID — It took eight years of trying to get on the TV show — and a lot of karaoke when she was a kid — but it only took about 90 seconds of singing Alanis Morissette’s “Hand In My Pocket” for 32-year-old Alyssa Crosby, of Binghamton, to be chosen by the queen of country ...
KEENE VALLEY — A group of parents at Keene Central School teamed up this year to expand after-school offerings to five days per week. The Keene Parent-Teacher Community Committee, entirely volunteer-run, aims to enrich students’ lives and help working parents with its after-school ...
LAKE PLACID — The village of Lake Placid was incorporated in 1900, and the town of North Elba was formed in 1849 when it broke away from the town of Keene. Native Americans spent time in this region before the first European settlers began arriving around 1800, setting up farms around ...
LAKE PLACID — Both the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry and the shuttered Helping Hands Thrift Shop will have a new home by next winter. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for the village to have, for the community to have. I think it’s well needed and it’s going to serve its purpose ...
In less than a month, tens of thousands of people are expected to travel into the North Country to be in one of the prime viewing spots for the April 8 total solar eclipse. With such a large migration of people into this rural, sparsely populated area, first responders will be on standby, ...