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Snow and ice are usually good things at Mount Van Hoevenberg. The mountain does, after all, boast a combined bobsled, luge ...
Marie Cogar was crowned the 20th Mad Hatter at the annual Mad Hatter’s Benefit for Creative Healing Connections held at the ...
In an area dominated by winter sports and ski resorts, baseball is rising. That’s at least what three hearty locals believe.
Champions and historians of skiing were celebrated in Lake Placid over March 26 to 30, while another, the most accomplished ...
The robotics lab — nicknamed the “Hive” — at Lake Placid High School is filled with every manner of tool and equipment, including 3-D printers and a laser engraving machine. It’s littered with ...
At North Country School, an average spring day might include spending the night in the barn listening in case a pregnant ...
The controversial proposed Comprehensive Dog Control Law for the town of Keene, was voted down by the board, 3-2, at the board’s regular meeting Tuesday. For the time being, Keene Local Law Number 1, ...
I can see a robin and a crocus in my yard. Some kind of partially frozen precipitation, about the consistency of a Slurpee, is falling on them both. It was April 15, tax day, almost 34 years ago, when ...
Are you a fan of the TV series “Game of Thrones?” It is one of many spin-offs of the card game “Clue,” based on a parlor Game ...
As I write this column, it is April first. I hate practical jokes, but I wouldn’t mind so much if they were limited to one day a year when I could stay home and not answer the phone. A day like today, ...
I’ve been told my Grandpa Allen’s father, John, was a dirt farmer in the Detroit area, and that he worked as a teamster. A teamster lower case, not a member of the Teamsters Union. John Allen carted ...
The Temple Beth El, in Williamsburg, was recently once again a forum for a Sunday lecture. This time it was Dr. Joel Levine, ...