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Lake Placid kids hold their own Parade of Nations

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

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

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

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 ...

What’s old is new

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 ...

Tupper Lake Democrats nominate two for trustee

TUPPER LAKE — Tupper Lake Democrats chose Barbara Denis and Susan Fitzpatrick to represent their party in the Nov. 5 race for two open Tupper Lake trustee seats at a caucus on Thursday, bringing the total number of candidates to appear on the ballot to four. Incumbent Deputy Mayor Eric ...