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 ...

D-Day prayers - Residents of this village spent many hours in the churches on D-Day. Church bells were tolled at 8:45 a.m. announcing the invasion, and services were held while many dropped in to say a prayer or light a candle throughout the day. Pupils arriving at Lake Placid High School ...

Memorial Day - With Lake Placid and Saranac Lake united in an observance of Memorial Day, the four remaining veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic in Lake Placid today will accompany the members of the Women’s Relief Corps to the latter village. The services there will include a ...

Olympic committee - Organization of the Lake Placid executive Olympic committee was completed last week. The following officers were chosen: Dr. Godfrey Dewey, chairman; Supervisor Willis Wells, vice chairman; William J. O’Hare, treasurer; John F. White, president of the Kiwanis Club of ...

Smokey turns 40 - Thousands of area schoolchildren, local dignitaries and officials from the state Department of Environmental Conservation gathered Tuesday to honor the birthday of that great conservationist, humanitarian and firefighter — Smokey Bear. Perhaps no more important or ...

Olympic bobsled - Determined to have the first entry in the Olympics, to be held here, and equally determined to have this sled an Adirondack product, five local men are now hard at work on plans for the five-man bob. These men are J. Hubert Stevens, Frank S. Leonard, J. Vernon Lamb, ...