A challenge of being Joseph Stalin, the all-powerful dictator leading the Soviet Union, was many people would try to kill you, even if it meant losing their own life. After taking power in 1924 following the death of Vladimir Lenin, Stalin became one of the world’s worst mass murderers, ...

Happy Thanksgiving! When November comes, we Americans like to hark back to that first Thanksgiving, with Squanto and Captain Shrimp and the gang. Harking back is all very well, but we should be thankful that we were not there at the time. Hark is a funny word, isn’t it? A word not heard ...

Hua, the cat, was adopted by the Wenzler family in 2022 from the Tri-Lakes Humane Society in Saranac Lake. She lives a gorgeous life of luxury with all the petting from humans she can desire, and free reign of the house and the Wenzlers’ yard. “This life is the best one so far out of ...

The Rotary Club of Lake Placid wishes to thank the community for coming out to our 18th Annual Dam Duck Race fundraiser and party. The race was initiated in 2005 starting with just 200 ducks and growing to over 1,700 ducks that go over the dam at Mill Pond. Debbie McLean had the vision. She ...

My college professor, adviser and mentor, Dr. Peter Allen, would often say, “You need to think like a river,” during our field assessments of urban streams damaged by rapid growth in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. This was his way of prompting me to think about why the channels ...

Mourning JFK - Lake Placid joined communities large and small across the nation this week in mourning the death by an assassin’s hand of President John F. Kennedy. The first reports from the scene at Dallas, Texas, came shortly after 1 p.m. last Friday. The news spread like a shock ...