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Will Lake Placid host a third Olympics?

LAKE PLACID — Salt Lake City, Utah, may be the International Olympic Committee’s preferred host city for the 2034 Olympic Winter Games, but Olympic competition could actually be coming back to the Adirondack Park in just over two years. New York state and U.S. Olympic & Paralympic ...

Christmas movie starts filming in Tri-Lakes

LAKE PLACID — Shortly after 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5, Bill Duffy of Queensbury arrived at the Lake Placid Public Library on Main Street. He was told to be there by 8 a.m. to be an extra for a scene in the Hallmark-style movie — “A Jar Full of Christmas” — being shot on Main ...

Helping Hands Thrift Shop closes doors

LAKE PLACID — After 31 years of serving the community, Helping Hands Thrift Shop closed its doors on Nov. 25. “I’m very thankful, grateful and humbled that we had the place for as long as we’ve had it,” said the shop’s director, Linda Young. Last year around this time, the ...

Man arrested after Franklin County legislators targeted with threats

Saranac Lake-based Franklin County Legislator Lindy Ellis was at the Franklin County Courthouse on Thursday when the building went into a temporary lockdown after a man made numerous and specific death threats toward her fellow legislators, Malone and Franklin County officials and the general ...

Lugers from Ukraine compete in World Cup

LAKE PLACID — Ukrainian luge athlete Oleksandra Mokh has spent this past week preparing for her first-ever FIL Luge World Cup on U.S. soil. Back home, her brother is fighting in the Ukrainian army, which is fending off a Russian invasion that started nearly two years ago. Mokh, 19, ...