LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid and North Elba Destination Management Plan Committee announced Tuesday, Sept. 12 that Adam DeSantis has been hired as this community’s new economic development director. The taxpayer-funded position was created by the committee “to direct the implementation ...

LAKE PLACID — The town of North Elba has issued 304 blue Resident Parking Pass stickers since the program launched in early August, according to town Deputy Clerk Adrienne Relyea, who is in charge of issuing the passes. Relyea said Wednesday, Sept. 13 that those stickers were given to ...

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Village Board of Trustees voted on Tuesday, Sept. 5 to increase sewer rates. This is the second sewer rate hike in two years for the village. Village treasurer Mindy Goddeau said that the rate increase is meant to cover the new debt that resulted from recent ...

LAKE PLACID — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) paid a visit to the Olympic Center and Lake Placid Olympic Museum on Wednesday, Aug. 30. “It’s (the Olympic Games) part of our legacy, it’s part of New York’s history, it’s part of Lake Placid’s history and it’s something that ...

LAKE PLACID — Ashley Walden has been named the new president and CEO of the state Olympic Regional Development Authority and will take over from current ORDA CEO Michael Pratt starting Sept. 11. Walden, 41, is a former Olympic luge athlete and a current resident of Lake Placid. She will ...

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid-North Elba Review Board voted Wednesday, Aug. 16 to recommend that a rezoning request from the developers of a tract of land on the shore of Lake Placid be approved. Though the application was the only item on the board’s docket for the meeting, the board spent ...