I guess maybe I have watched more Winter Carnival Gala Parades than anyone else in town. Wait, that’s a big maybe, because Walter (Bud) Duffy has been here longer than meself, so he is probably the winner in that category. Last Saturday there were more spectators packed on the streets for ...

Melvil Dewey became famous for creating the Dewey Decimal System for library book classification when he was a 21-year-old student at Amherst College in 1872. However, Mr. Dewey was famous here, as we all know, after he built the Lake Placid Club as a summer resort in the late 1890s. It was ...

So, let us “Jump Right In,” as the subhead read over a story in the Boston Globe: “Lake Placid, its bid brochure proclaimed, was up where the mountains meet the sky and the deep, white snows of winter say to young and old, ‘Come up and play!’ “When the village won the nod ...

Snowless days and warm nights plagued the 1932 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, held Feb. 4-13, much as the weather had not been kind to us during the 2023 FISU Games. The closing ceremony, for those successful FISU games, was held in the Olympic Center on last Sunday following the ...

The end of 2022 marks the 130-year anniversary of the incorporation of the village of Saranac Lake. But 1992 was also a big year for New York state, and that is one reason Gov. Mario Cuomo came to the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake — to celebrate the 1892 creation of the Adirondack ...

So there we were, all excited about the Kennedy Games opening in 1971, and now here we are 52 years later all excited again about the FISU Games now underway in Lake Placid. And boy, wasn’t it worth all the mess on Main Street because it has turned out so beautiful. Looking at the park ...