In Keene, 2022 came to a close with heavy snow, followed by rain, shoveling slush and ice, and then a baptism on Christmas morning at the Keene Valley Congregational Church as its Van Sanvoordt Room was filling with a growing pile of sleeping bags bound for Ukraine. Up in Lake Placid, ...

Here we are again in that void between Christmas and the New Year, in the dark and cold of the winter solstice. Even though we are still officially in the year 2022, this seems like an in-between time, a space between two worlds. This week between Dec. 25 and New Year’s Day is neither one ...

The Lake Placid Middle-High School Nordic ski team started a fresh season about a month ago, and as one of the new skiers on the team, I feel it’s going well. There are many people on the team this year, about 15 skiers in all. Out of those skiers, there are five middle schoolers, ...

This is the 2,000th column I have written for the Lake Placid News and the Virginia Gazette, over the past decades. Choosing what to write about, I had to take into consideration the make-up of my readership. Namely, that Williamsburg, and its environment, is a retirement magnet for former ...

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 ...