SARANAC LAKE — The location of the first 2024 Winter Carnival planning meeting on Sept. 12 has changed. The meeting has been moved from the Elk’s Club to the second-floor ballroom of the Hotel Saranac. The meeting is still at the same time: 5:30 p.m. Chairman Rob Russell said the ...

SARANAC LAKE — The kick-off meeting for the 2024 Winter Carnival is Sept. 12 and the event’s Chairman Rob Russell says the organizing committee is seeking new volunteers to step up and fill a couple vacancies. The meeting will be held at the Elk’s Club at 30 Bloomingdale Ave. at 5:30 ...

SARANAC LAKE — Lake George’s Ice Castles event is rebranding and moving forward without an actual castle this year after its first two years came with delays because of unseasonably warm weather. Around the American north, some winter festival traditions are being threatened by ...

SARANAC LAKE — Rob Russell took off his shoe. Jeff Branch off his. Russell compared their sneakers sitting side-by-side and said he’s got big shoes to fill, literally. Russell was unanimously voted in as the new chairman of the Winter Carnival Committee on Tuesday, taking the reins from ...

SARANAC LAKE — BOO! The 2024 Winter Carnival theme will be a spine-tingling time, but the Carnival committee just doesn’t know what to call it yet. The creepy theme is going by several names right now — Haunted Carnival, Spirited Carnival or Spooky Carnival — the committee still has ...

SARANAC LAKE — The top six ideas for next year’s Winter Carnival theme are in. After a meeting on Tuesday in which more than 50 theme ideas were pitched and discussed, the committee selected Music Legends/Jukebox Heroes, Buggin’ Out, Haunted/Spirited Carnival, Wizards and Dragons, ...