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Lake Placid kids hold their own Parade of Nations

Local News

LAKE PLACID — Hours before athletes paraded their countries’ flags on boats along the River Seine during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, more than 85 summer campers from Camp Placid lined up to make an entrance from the tunnel at the Olympic Speedskating Oval ...

Play groups, info sessions, community offered for families

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SARANAC LAKE — Children’s shouts of glee echoed around the Saranac Lake Baptist Church gym on Wednesday as they jumped in a bounce house, battled it out with foam tubes and crawled around in tents. Once a week, this free play group is organized by the Tupper Lake-based Family Matters ...

Local support for adoptive and kinship families

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SARANAC LAKE — A local support group for adoptive and kinship families has expanded into this village, offering information, financial assistance, counseling, community and advocacy, all for free. This comes at a time when organizers say the state is prioritizing kinship placements over ...

Injuries, rescues and a bear encounter

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Forest rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation ticketed campers for leaving their campsite in unsanitary conditions and responded to multiple calls reporting lost and injured hikers over the past few weeks. - Bear encounter - A camper at the Fish Creek ...

Listeria outbreak spurs recall of Boar’s Head deli meats

New York news

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials Friday announced a recall of some Boar’s Head liverwurst and deli meats as they investigate a listeria outbreak that has sickened nearly three dozen people and caused two deaths. Boar’s Head Provisions Co. recalled liverwurst because it may be ...

What’s old is new

Local News

SARANAC LAKE — For the first time in a long time, the Saranac Lake Antique Show and Sale will fill the Saranac Lake Civic Center with wooden furniture, metal advertisements proclaiming unbelievable prices from the past, stuffed hunting trophies, art and collectables on Friday and ...