LAKE PLACID - At the Olympic Center during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, cheese sticks were a currency.North Elba Park District Manager Gene "Butch" Martin, 68, served as operations manager at the Olympic Center at the time. He remembers those games as a blur of rapid-fire activity, endless ...

LAKE PLACID - Sophomores at Northwood School are hoping that this village's story of hosting the XIII Olympic Winter Games in 1980 - the last small-town Olympics, organized by friends and neighbors, not professionals - will be enough to win the coveted NPR Student Podcast Challenge.The grand ...