I’ve been on the phone with Claywood, my friend of 56 years, for hours, “skirting the edges of dark humor,” as he put it. Claywood is no stranger to paradox, alternate realities, parallel universes or indecision. Never have I met someone so unremittingly of two minds on every ...

August was an eventful month with great turn-outs at our programs, new members and a few members we haven’t seen in a bit. We celebrate them all, the silver and gold. This is why I need to start with our most recent memorable event of the annual dinner at Heaven Hill Farm on Bear Cub ...

The Lake Placid Public Library enjoyed a very eventful summer with many visitors and patrons enjoying the reading porch and outdoor gardens as well as all the children and adult programming that were free and open to the public. We have our very own special author here at the library. ...

One of Lake Placid’s unique natural resources is polluted. But the town’s newly formed Dark Sky Committee believes that together we can fix it. Many of the positive developments in the community over the past decade have come with unintended negative consequences on an important natural ...

Lady in the lake - A brand new sport and a 30-year-old mystery combined to give Lake Placid its biggest news story of the week. Skin divers on Sunday found the body of a woman in Lake Placid believed to be that of Mrs. Mabel Smith Douglass, who disappeared in the lake on Sept. 21, ...

The I Love BBQ and Music Festival was launched in 2006 as a fundraiser for the Shipman Youth Center in Lake Placid and has become a crucial income stream for this youth program that has touched the lives of many. This year, it was held from Sept. 1 to 3. Originally held on the Olympic ...