Our “Little Orchestra That Does” was absolutely doing it big time at its weekly concert on Sunday, July 31 with a very well balanced program by American composers past and present at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. Officially known as the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, under the direction ...
Potato Queen - Lake Placid’s sports world pays unique honor to mountain farmers Thursday, Aug. 19, when Yvonne Sherman, distinguished champion figure skater, is enthroned here as queen of the Adirondack Potato Growers Association. The tall 18-year-old brunette beauty was 1947 national ...
Three years ago, Keene Valley Librarian Karen Glass and library volunteer Jeri Huntley discussed ways of capturing stories by local residents about such seminal events as Tropical Storm Irene that destroyed roadways and local homes and businesses and initially closed all roads into the ...
Once August hits, the rest of the summer goes fast, like ketchup out of a bottle at a barbecue. Just when you are getting used to it being summer, and snow and ice are like something out of the distant past—the last Ice Age, say—the days of August rush past, falling all over each other in ...
Those who may have seen the Lake Placid Sinfonietta for the first time last weekend picked a good night to show up. The Saturday evening July 23 concert at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts under the direction of Stuart Malina — moved up a day because of Sunday’s Ironman Lake Placid ...
No on more gas - There is no provision in the regulations for rationing gasoline that provides for transportation to recreational areas; that was the answer received by Lake Placid and Saranac Lake officials to a petition for gas exemption in this area. The petition was drawn up at a ...