Thanks to Justin Garwood, Ken Garwood’s grandson, the park at the corner of Broadway and Ampersand Avenue has been officially named and blessed by a unanimous vote of the village board under Mayor Jimmy Williams as “Ken Garwood POW Park.” It must have been a year ago that Justin called ...

A unique, maybe I could say, clever format would fit the description of a small (5-inch by 6-inch) publication that contained every single fact and figure that anyone would ever want to know about Saranac Lake. Meet the Town was first published in 1927 by Thomas W. Sheridan with a circulation ...

Lake Placid was stunned and numb with grief — as was most of the North Country — when word was received here 65 years ago that their beloved mayor, Dr. George C. Owens, 84, had drowned in a boating accident. Drowned along with him was Lake Placid resident Tom Martin, 68, and Dr. Owens’ ...

The Ice Shows at the 1932 Olympic Arena in Lake Placid were an impressive undertaking more than 50 years ago. Before we give you the lineup of stars in that 1971 show, let us begin with 15-year-old Dorothy Hamill. In the Lake Placid show, she was billed as a gold medal winner at the St. ...

I think that is exactly what happened when Lake Placid was rockin’ in the 1980s. My good friend Ray Pratt was the head honcho at the state Olympic Regional Development Authority — Ray’s son, Mike Pratt, is CEO of ORDA today. Many residents of Lake Placid and the entire region agreed ...

Luckily for me, I ran into Judy and Marc Wanner last week at a Historic Saranac Lake event hosted by the Garbe family at their beautiful camp on Upper Saranac. Marc is the author of a super Wiki site for HSL. He is onto a story about a sanatorium that operated in Rainbow Lake up until 1930. I ...