A long-held belief is that the Adirondack Mountains, the land above 1,000 feet in elevation, were devoid of Indigenous ...
When Forest Ranger Matthew Adams got 5:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 26 call to join the search for a missing hiker in the Dix Range ...
My heart pounded, not from the 2,500 or so feet we had ascended over the last couple of hours, but for the unnerving uncertainty that lay before me. Atop Mount Colden’s false peak, an exposed ...
Biff says he knew the war our country is now conducting with Iran didn’t surprise him one bit. It was in the cards, Biff says. His sister Pearl and I, on the other hand, were completely thrown by it.
The Saranac Lake girls Nordic ski team is the state champion for the first time in school history. The Red Storm girls dominated the state competition, officially securing the title the Feb. 24 ...
The Sara-Placid Lakers 10U hockey team was in the midst of a championship bout in the Sunday Lake Placid International Tournament when their game was put on hold for a moment. More than 4,000 miles ...
A!” and a few openly wept Sunday, Feb. 22 at Lake Placid’s Olympic Center, the same building where the “Miracle on Ice” ...
The U.S. women’s hockey team had just won Olympic gold, and veteran forward Kendall Coyne Schofield summed the moment up ...
The meeting room of St. Bernard’s School rang with the sound of dozens of students screaming “USA! USA! USA!” as the kids had ...
Edward and Kay McCasland, of Lake Placid, pose Saturday, Feb. 21 in the Olympic Center’s 1980 rink with a plaque dedicating the Lake Placid Youth Athletic Association International Hockey Tournament ...
Every once in a while, I look back at columns I’ve written over the years and reminisce. There was the time, back in the early 1990s, when a rogue logging truck lost its brakes coming down through the ...
A sprawling world-class city and a small mountain village with a rich Olympic history, separated by about five or six hours, collaborate and play host to a truly dual-host Winter Games. Milan and ...