On Wednesday, Nov. 16, 13 teams of excited and smart people turned out for the Rotary Club of Lake Placid’s Fall Trivia Night. There were lots of new faces this year and over 100 people were in attendance, including volunteers. Trivia Night’s doyenne, Mary Liz Alexander, said, “The ...

Play street - Village trustees are considering the proposal of Mayor George C. Owens to reserve one of the village thoroughfares as a play street for children to avoid accidents during the winter. Trustee Luke Perkins suggested that the street extending from the top of the hill back of ...

Representatives of the arts, environment and sports came together to welcome Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, to the Lake Placid Center for the Arts on Wednesday, Nov. 22. Their message was that there is a strong collaboration between these three aspects of education, life and work in the North ...

I was doing a little light holiday shopping yesterday when I came up with some unusual gift ideas. Years ago, who could have foreseen that a bucket of simple housecleaning products would someday be a popular Christmas present? That would have gone over like a lead balloon (an idiom people used ...

The Lake Placid Lions Club held its annual Radio Auction on Nov. 18. This event has traditionally been the largest annual fundraiser, and this year’s auction proved once again to do just that. The broadcast was held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through a donation of airtime by radio station ...

Garden Club of Lake Placid members again enjoyed using live greens to decorate the village fences and rails along Main Street, Mid’s and Brewster Park this holiday season. The COVID years and last year’s focus on a different holiday look for the 2023 FISU Winter World University ...