(Editor’s note: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper ...
To the editor: Gratitude best describes the feelings of the Board and volunteers at Lake Placid Thrive & Thrift. It is hard to believe that the building we operate from has been open for just a little over a year. We first opened to the public for the Thanksgiving 2024 basket giveaway. ...
To the editor: On behalf of the board and staff of the Arts Center Lake Placid, we would like to thank our entire community for this year’s Joy to the Children celebration. We are immensely grateful to the Weibrecht family for hosting this event and for their unwavering partnership over ...
To the editor: On behalf of the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST), I would like to extend our sincere appreciation to the Holiday Village Stroll Committee and to the many businesses and organizations that participated in coordinating the 2025 Lake Placid Holiday Village ...
Do you feel loved by our country? If so, why so; if not, why not, and what would it take to feel loved by our country? Such are the questions being asked by SUNY Plattsburgh and University of Rochester students of their classmates, teachers, and community members through a listening program ...
(Editor’s note: This is Martha Allen’s Dec. 12 column for the Lake Placid News, which did not run in last week’s issue due to space limitations. We apologize for the inconvenience.) What do Santa Claus and his elves, Bigfoot, ghosts, aliens, evil spirits and gypsy fortune tellers have ...