Each fall, the Educational Opportunity Fund provides teachers at the Lake Placid Central School District a unique opportunity. They can apply for teacher innovation grants to fund unique and creative ideas not covered by the school budget. Each teacher’s grant application must show how ...

May 10: 490 lbs. May 31 (surgery): 460 lbs. Dec. 27: 393 lbs. Total lost: 97 lbs. - This is what holiday eating feels like seven months after bariatric surgery. I’m in a movie, a fighter pilot struggling to regain control of my aircraft as it spins, lifeless, plummeting toward the ...

Santa Claus visit - Inclement weather forced Santa Claus to make his appearance on Mirror Lake Sunday afternoon via horse and cutter, but over 500 children, and nearly a like number of adults, were on hand to greet him with the children all receiving a stocking filled with toys and ...

Lake Placid Rotarians love to volunteer and bring good energy wherever we go. This holiday season, we have rung the Salvation Army bell to collect funds, served hot cocoa at the Holiday Village Stroll, and sung carols and delivered 110 personalized holiday gifts to residents of ...

On Saturday evening, Dec. 17, following the women’s monobob and two-man bobsled IBSF World Cup award ceremony, the state Olympic Regional Development Authority’s Mountain Pass Lodge at Mount Van Hoevenberg hosted the USA Bobsled & Skeleton Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Without ...

“... Yet this I ne’er shall know, but live in doubt “Till my good angel drive my bad one out.” (William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 144”) - OK, we’re really into it now. It all seems so sudden, but, as I write this, it’s almost Christmas. It happens the same way every ...