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ON THE SCENE: A stroll through Ironman Village

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, ...

MARTHA SEZ: ‘There is no such thing as a dust mite’

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 ...

ADIRONDACK FILM NEWS: Building an Adirondack film commission

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 ...

HISTORY IS COOL: 25 years ago

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 ...

ON THE SCENE: Jeff Corwin: Nature matters

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 ...

MARTHA SEZ: ‘Cliff was not the sharpest knife in the drawer’

There are no different sides to a story, there are just different stories. This, according to Marco, A character in “My Apology,” a “New Yorker” short story by Sam Lipsyte (July 5, 2021). “People either believe yours or the other one,” Marco says. “Usually the other ...