US ski jumpers post solid outing in Lake Placid World Cup
The USA Ski Jumping team had one of its best World Cup outings in recent years on its home soil this past weekend. Americans ...
Lake Placid’s Seb Cecunjanin joins 1,000-point club
Just outside the Lake Placid High School gymnasium, there’s a trophy case with three basketballs for each of the school’s ...
IT TAKES A VILLAGE: Volunteers feel both heat, cold during World Cup ski jumping
How many volunteers does it take to host a ski jumping World Cup? At least this year, the answer is 182. This past weekend, ...
SLIDING THROUGH WINTER: Toboggan Chute running extended hours this week
One of the area’s most iconic attractions is ready to ride as the Olympic Region celebrates President’s Week, which is ...
Finding fairness a victory in competitions
By NAJ WIKOFF The first World Cup Ski Jumping competition in the United States that featured both men and women jumpers was ...
Barney, Light chosen as Carnival king, queen
The Lake Placid Middle/High School gym was decked out in string lights and hay bales on Monday for the 82nd annual Winter Carnival Coronation. During the event, Seniors Levi Barney and Abbey Light ...
Opinion
Martha Sez: Seeing red while feeling the love on Valentine’s Day
The full moon is shining in through my window as I type this column for Valentine’s Day. It is very early in the morning. Across the street, huge plow trucks are clearing mountainous piles of snow in ...
Opinion
Best of Mountains Readers’ Choice contest returns
The Readers’ Choice for Best of the Mountains 2025 is back! This annual contest is where you, our readers, have the last word. This is our third year with all the nominating and voting done online.
Opinion
World View: The promise and the peril
Mitchell Reiss — the former president and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and before that, director of the Reves Center for International Studies and vice-provost for International ...
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Martha Sez: Finding loose change won’t make penny lover wealthy
An old friend once advised me to shake my wallet at the waxing crescent moon, just after the phase of the new (invisible) moon. Doing so will bring money, she said. Well, the sky was clear the other ...
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Winter Speaker Series continues
The Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society is pleased to announce the second program in its 2025 Winter Speaker Series: Driven to the Poorhouse, presented by Margaret Bartley. Poverty has always ...
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ONE TALL ORDER: Exploring the largest drop of any ski area in the East
The Bear Den Lodge is seen on Friday, Jan. 31. WILMINGTON — This week’s Visiting Lake Placid column needs no introduction. Boasting 3,430 vertical feet — the largest of any ski area in the East — 94 ...