The health of the AuSable River watershed is vital to the economic, physical and emotional well-being of all who live within it. Imagine if the waters of Lake Placid, Mirror Lake, the Cascade and AuSable lakes, the Chubb and AuSable rivers and their tributaries were too polluted to swim in, ...

Oh no! It’s starting to rain. In a minute I absolutely have to go bring everything in off the porch, where I draped some wet blouses over the backs of three Adirondack chairs to dry. Well, the sun was out then. They may be dry by now. My friend Charlotte came over this morning and dragged ...

During the past few weeks, we have been enjoying wonderful spring weather. With the end of spring break and, of course, the solar eclipse behind us, the library is planning exciting events for the coming summer. On Monday, April 8, many visitors came to enjoy the beautiful view of Mirror ...

Another Earth Day has come and gone, but for the Mirror Lake Watershed Association, the goals of Earth Day mirror our goals. Of course, for it to create effective change, Earth Day needs to be a way of life, not a brief celebration once a year. Likewise, the MLWA remains vigilant in its ...

Olympic bobsled - Determined to have the first entry in the Olympics, to be held here, and equally determined to have this sled an Adirondack product, five local men are now hard at work on plans for the five-man bob. These men are J. Hubert Stevens, Frank S. Leonard, J. Vernon Lamb, ...

In 1736, Ben Franklin organized the first volunteer fire department in America. Called the Union Fire Company, he established it in Philadelphia with 30 people volunteering. Franklin had grown up in Boston, where he had witnessed fire devastation in an urban environment that resulted in ...