All right, everyone, put away your white shoes. Labor Day is over, and Columbus Day is right around the corner. Leaf season is beginning. Yes, it’s hot out, but it’s meteorological fall. No matter how many things I forget, I always remember the rule about wearing white shoes after Labor ...
Olympic bid - The distant hope that the 1940 Olympic Winter Games would be awarded to Lake Placid has been dashed by the Associated Press announcement that they will go to St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Winter Games have been like an orphan child. They have found no home abroad until the ...
From Oct. 4 to 8, the World Figure and Fancy Skating Championships will return to Lake Placid, where they were founded nine years ago by Olympians Karen Courtland Kelly and Patrick Kelly. The 9th anniversary celebration of its founding was held in the Roamers Cafe at the Olympic Center on ...
Supermoon, blue moon. If the cloudy skies hold off, we’re in for a celestial treat. August’s second blue moon, the biggest full moon of 2023, rises Aug. 30, and the full-moon effect will persist for a night or two. It’s difficult to detect its gradual wax and wane with the naked eye. Even ...
Summers are always busy for the staff at the Ausable River Association. It's peak season for ecological research, for river restoration and culvert replacement, and for simply helping folks young and old to enjoy and care for the river. The rains and high water have challenged some of that ...
Wallface rescue - Parents, friends and well wishers of three boys who had been trapped on a ledge on Wallface for 32 hours sighed heavily with relief as three tired but happy-faced youths tramped forth from the trail at the Adirondack Lodge club to be fed, bundled up and taken to their homes ...