‘Miracle’ rematch - A Dec. 9 rematch between the Soviet Union and the U.S. Olympic hockey team in Lake Placid has been confirmed by the Amateur Hockey Association. Lake Placid’s Olympic Center will host the game — the only match to be televised prior to the 1984 Olympics in ...

Olympic vote - Residents of the town of North Elba Park District voted to pursue the 1980 Winter Olympics for Lake Placid in a special referendum on Tuesday. The vote was 726 to 576 against. The referendum gave the officials of the town of North Elba permission to expend up to $20,000 ...

Major earthquake - Many North Country residents were just waking up, feeding still-sleepy babies, having a first cup of morning coffee, taking showers. Just about everyone heard the first deep rumble, then felt a jolt and a steady shaking as the strongest earthquake in four decades rocked ...

Body search - Dragging operations in Lake Placid lake for the body of Mrs. Mabel Smith Douglass, 56, former New Jersey Women’s College dean, believed drowned near Pulpit Rock last Thursday, are expected to continue through the rest of the week. If no trace of the body is found by that ...

Big summer - The summer has been a very satisfactory one for the hotel men and others doing business in Lake Placid, according to E. C. Paarman, secretary of the local Chamber of Commerce. Although June was too cool and generally unfavorable to start people in large numbers toward the ...

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, ...