KEESEVILLE - A now empty building on Front Street was once home to a Tops grocery store. At one point, it was a Mac's Market. At another time, it was a Grand Union. Today, this hamlet of a little more than 1,800 residents hasn't had a grocery store for about five years despite being surrounded ...

LAKE PLACID - Big Slide Brewery & Public House opened in the summer of 2016. It's owned by the same company as the Lake Placid Pub & Brewery on Mirror Lake Drive. However, owner Chris Ericson didn't want Big Slide to be just a second location. It's a little bit more ...

LAKE PLACID - The planning phase is over. Now it's time to actually build the world's largest international agritourism trail - cuisine trail, tasting trail, culinary trail - whatever they are going to call it."They" being the agriculture and tourism officials in New York, Vermont, Quebec and ...

Today there is an infinite digital library of recipes, tips, tricks, creative twists and spins on all things sweet and savory for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert.I enjoy the inspiration and have tried many new dishes and ingredients about which I might never have known. It's a trial and ...

One of my fondest and early memories of squash is of when my mother used to prepare roasted acorn squash.The days had grown shorter, the nights had gotten cooler, and fall had surely arrived. It wasn't a complicated "recipe" per se, just a simple preparation as much as anything. Even still, the ...

WESTPORT - When it comes to the term "autumn eats," most of the people the Lake Placid News interviewed at the third annual Adirondack Harvest Festival turned to locally grown cucurbits or gourds."Squash, pumpkins," said Cynthia Johnston, the former Keene Central School superintendent who ...