By NAJ WIKOFF The first World Cup Ski Jumping competition in the United States that featured both men and women jumpers was in Lake Placid from Feb. 6 to 9. In another first on the international level, the women received parity in prize money with the men. As is true in many sports, male ...
The Readers’ Choice for Best of the Mountains 2025 is back! This annual contest is where you, our readers, have the last word. This is our third year with all the nominating and voting done online. This proved very successful with over 64,000 votes last year! This contest will once again ...
The Lake Placid skating community took a double hit this past week with the death of former two-time Olympic champion Dick Button and the tragic air accident in Washington, D.C., that claimed the lives of many up-and-coming skaters, coaches and family members. Many of whom have trained and ...
Dr. Edward Lozasky was a Soviet nuclear physicist who during the height of the Cold War became a dissident. Lozansky’s father-in-law was one of the Soviet Union’s top generals. To avoid embarrassment, he arranged for Lozansky to leave the Soviet Union and become an exile. He promised ...
An old friend once advised me to shake my wallet at the waxing crescent moon, just after the phase of the new (invisible) moon. Doing so will bring money, she said. Well, the sky was clear the other night, and I went outside and saw the crescent moon and shook my wallet at it, and it worked! ...
In a July 2023 Gazette column, I have reported that William Walker, the retired Vice President for Public Relations at William & Mary College who became a noted historian, is now in the process of writing my biography, focused on survival during the Holocaust. Walker is the author of the ...