Lake Placid and Kona, Hawaii, are the Mount Rushmore of Ironman races, according to several professional and high-end athletes I met in the Ironman Village on Saturday, July 20. Most said Lake Placid has the most challenging course. The bike route, hills, scenery and warmth of the community, ...
A British survey of 2,000 people by Hammonds Furniture concluded that a third of Brits change their bed sheets only once a year. This alarming statistic was reported in the British publication “Metro News.” (It was also determined, and duly reported, that many of those surveyed washed ...
As Adirondack Film enters the final four months of our countdown to the 2024 Lake Placid Film Festival, we are not only working on the festival, we are currently engaged in building out the structure of a dynamic film commission. We have asked Eric Granger to fill the role of film ...
Ironman Lake Placid - Ironman is here and it’s here to stay, according to Ironman President Graham Fraser, who announced Tuesday, July 27 that the headquarters for United States events will be permanently located in Lake Placid. This means that Ironman USA officials have designated ...
The “crane date” for the new Lake Placid Thrive & Thrift — a combined food pantry and thrift shop — is less than four weeks from now, Aug. 21, and that’s when the building should start taking shape. Yet there is much more work to be done and lots of money still to be ...
Jeff Corwin — creator, executive producer, and presenter of ABC’s “Wildlife Nation” series — attracted a large audience to the Lake Placid Institute’s open Adirondack Roundtable Saturday morning, July 13, to learn about challenges facing Earth’s wildlife, how it impacts human ...