Increasingly, kids are pressured to select a primary sport at a young age. Doing so, they miss out on the fun and opportunity of participating in a variety of sports during a school year, which in the North Country might be soccer in the fall, hockey or skiing in the winter, and lacrosse or ...
Olympic hockey - To win a hockey medal in the Olympic Games takes the practice to develop solid teamwork and the confidence to believe that you can execute the right plays, according to United States Olympic Hockey Team Coach Herb Brooks. For the U.S. Olympic hockey squad, Sunday ...
“All is safely gathered in Ere the winter storms begin.” — Henry Alford, 1844, from the hymn “Come Ye Thankful People Come” Columbus Day, I mean Indigenous Peoples’ Day, is right around the corner. Three years ago, Oct. 8, 2021, President Biden proclaimed the second Monday in ...
The UCI Mountain Bike World Series at Mount Van Hoevenberg this past weekend were remarkable on multiple levels. No question, without New York state’s significant investment in upgrading the Olympic venues for the 2023 FISU Winter World University Games, the Olympic Regional ...
October. It’s fall, and all around us nature is preparing for the winter ahead. Bears are knocking over garbage cans and otherwise striving assiduously to build up the requisite body fat to tide them over through the upcoming months of hibernation. Squirrels are gathering seeds and nuts and ...
Erika Fabian is not a stranger to the readers of the Lake Placid News. She was featured several times in the pages of this paper as a child survivor of the Holocaust. Tamara Dietrich, in a 2018 Daily Press article, described Erika as a person who spent much of her childhood in hiding, in ...