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GARDEN CLUB NEWS: Garden Club of Lake Placid offers home garden tips

Members of the Garden Club of Lake Placid have recently enjoyed some fun and interesting activities such as candle making at Pure Placid. They have also participated in a guided tour at the Cornell University’s Uihlein Maple Research Forest, learning about the process of making maple ...

HISTORY IS COOL: 90 years ago

Post office lease - Proposals for the leasing of quarters to be used as a post office at Lake Placid have been asked by the U.S. Department. The request indicates that the new post office building, authorized for this village, will not be completed when the lease on quarters now occupied ...

ON THE SCENE: Discovering ‘Floaters’ in Upper Jay

A good book, movie or play gets you talking, often days, weeks or longer after you have experienced it. On that measure alone, the reading of Scott Renderer’s latest play, “Floaters,” held at the Recovery Lounge (aka Upper Jay Art Center) on Thursday, May 30, was a resounding ...

MARTHA SEZ: ‘Bad, worse, worst. Good, better, best. But Evil is Evil.’

When Adam and Eve took a bite of the apple, thereby gaining the knowledge of Good and Evil, they bit off more than they could chew. We humans have been arguing about the permutations ever since. The knowledge of Good and Evil is different from the knowledge of good and bad. The difference is ...

HISTORY IS COOL: 85 years ago

Waiting for ice - Figure skating enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the opening of the eighth annual summer ice season in the arena on Saturday, June 24. These include budding champions who are depending on the 10 weeks of summer training to get them in top form for winter competitions while ...

ON THE SCENE: Remembering wine aficionado Terry Robards

Sherman Marshall “Terry” Robards, author of the groundbreaking “New York Times Book of Wine,” wine critic for the Times and later the New York Post, columnist for the Wine Spectator and other wine industry journals, radio host and founder of Terry Robards Wine & Spirits in Lake ...