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Opinion

Library News: Readying for changes, new programs

Columns

What a busy month at the LPPL! The summer program planning is complete, and we eagerly await the arrival of summer visitors to our streets. — Library Budget Vote — The Library Board, Director Bambi Pedu, and the library staff would like to thank everyone who came out on May 13 to support ...

Martha Sez: Gift of Flying Palace grinds gears for some

Columns

We are having a cold, wet week, with the daytime temperature predicted to finally drag itself up to a high of 63 degrees on Memorial Day Monday. The forecast does not include frost, even at night, but it comes dangerously close for all of those Mother’s Day hanging baskets and planters. In ...

Community Day worth celebrating

Letters to the Editor

To the Editor, The Lake Placid Community Day organizing committee would like to remind everyone that the seventh annual Lake Placid Community Day is this Sunday, June 1 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Lake Placid Horse Show Grounds. All those who live, work or volunteer in the community are ...

Hopeful perspective comes into focus in students’ works

Guest Commentary

For anyone feeling discouraged about the disconnectedness and polarization that seem to overshadow our world today, I was reminded recently that there is hope to be found when you tune into the artistic perspectives of young people. This month, the Lake Placid Center for the Arts celebrated ...

Reenactments offer a window to birth of our nation

Columns

Shouts of “No Quarter!” in the wee hours of May 10 scared the British soldiers and their wives 250 years ago as the Green Mountain Boys scaled the walls and burst into the courtyard of Fort Ticonderoga; shouts at that time meant all would be killed. “It was pretty terrifying for the ...

Martha Sez: Be ready to follow important rules if heading to Dubai

Columns

My grandson, Jack, at 11 years old, has become fascinated with Dubai. When not preoccupied with the internet or studying cars — Jack has been enthralled with motorized vehicles since infancy — he may be found poring over a huge, heavy book filled with glossy color photographs of ...