WADHAMS - Six days before the Vernal Equinox, lettuce plants in the Juniper Hill Farm greenhouse were already several inches tall.On Thursday, March 14, the day the Lake Placid News visited the farm off Route 10, temperatures peaked in the 50s and thaw gave way to deep mud puddles. Owner Adam ...
(The following letter was found in the Lake Placid News archives from the April 17, 1931 issue.)M. S. Wallace, out of his 60 years of experience as a maker of maple sugar and syrup, gives a resume of his memories of the maple sugar industry. The following is a letter recently received from Mr. ...
LAKE PLACID - With the help of about four dozen volunteers, the North Elba Christmas Fund distributed about 150 holiday meal boxes to people in town who need a little extra help.Shannon Porter manages the North Elba Christmas Fund with fellow town employee Britt Isham. Porter was in charge of ...
SARANAC LAKE - Many Tri-Lakes residents of French-Canadian ancestry know about the tourtiere - a traditional double-crusted meat pie of the Christmas season that originated in Quebec. And one Saranac Lake woman - Sylvie Nelson - was busy this week making them for her family and friends.For a ...
JAY - The Alpaca Shoppe in this hamlet doubles as the Rosenblum Chiropractic office.About 15 years ago, Seth and Trudy Rosenblum stumbled upon a craft fair in Saratoga. One of the vendors featured alpacas. When the couple got closer, an alpaca kissed Seth."That was the end of it," Trudy said. ...
PAUL SMITHS - The student-run restaurant at Paul Smith's College - The Ganzi - serves up a farm-to-table lunch menu with a focus on locally grown food.Yet everyone has a different definition of "local" when it comes to food, according to chef and associate professor Kevin McCarthy. For him, ...