The following are briefs from many stories. Such as the lead story about the opening of the Adirondack Champlain Festival in Lake Placid; the opening of “George M” at Joan Frank’s Lake Placid Playhouse; a long story about the closing of Pius X Central High School in Saranac Lake which ...
Happy birthday, Howard Riley! Our newspaper sage turns 95 years old on Sunday. Born on July 20, 1930, in a farmhouse in the hamlet of Gabriels, Howard has lived more lives than most of us, and he continues to write a weekly column — “You Know What ...?” — for the Adirondack Daily ...
Parents have been asking me a whole lot of questions about the tiny hole they sometimes find over the lower back of their babies. Let me see if I can make things simple about these things we call sacral dimples. Dimples or pits at the base of the tailbone just above or in the buttock ...
To the editor: The wait is finally over — Lake Placid Sinfonietta’s 2025 season has begun, and what an exhilarating start it was. This past Sunday’s opening concert (July 13) brought the audience a vivid palette of rarely heard gems, beginning with Erich Korngold’s Suite from ...
As a Red-Blooded All-American Boy, I started riding a bike as soon as I could. Or more exactly, I started TRYING to ride a bike. I was six or seven and it was a daunting task, as my mother, who raised only RBAAB’s, refused to let me have training wheels. My mother was almost 40 when I ...
To the editor: The house is on fire. The house that has stood for 250 years, set ablaze by those meant to safeguard it. No authorized firefighters are there, they’ve been ordered to stay away. Volunteers have formed a bucket brigade and a few have garden houses, but the flames ...