Both the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry and the shuttered Helping Hands Thrift Shop will have a new home by next winter. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports a 3,000 square foot building is slated to go up where the Lake Placid Central School District’s basketball courts are currently located, next to the Shipman Youth Center. … Read more
Lake Placid will host a round of the WHOOP UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) Mountain Bike World Series – the world’s premier mountain biking circuit – for the first time Sept. 27-29. Sun Community News reports the series will bring the world’s top professional mountain bikers to Lake Placid to compete in three UCI Mountain Bike … Read more
The Lake Placid Central School District Board of Education voted Tuesday to approve a girls flag football team, more sports mergers and a calendar for the next school year. According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, the board also responded to recent calls for a public-private sports merger for day students at Northwood School and revisited … Read more
Candidates running for two open seats on the Saranac Lake village board spoke on some of the biggest issues facing the village at a meet the candidates forum co-hosted by the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Adirondack Voters for Change. Four candidates participated in the forum — independents Sean Ryan and Katie Stiles, who are running … Read more
The town of North Elba and village of Lake Placid building and planning department will roll out a new online permitting platform on March 25, eliminating paper applications for the Lake Placid-North Elba Joint Review Board and Zoning Board of Appeals. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports though the permit applications will move online, the information … Read more
Registration is open for the 2024 Adirondack Paddling Symposium, June 14-17 in Saranac Lake. Presented by NRS and the Northern Forest Canoe Trail (NFCT), the Symposium is a comprehensive weekend of paddling instruction for beginners and intermediates, and includes course tracks for kayaks, pack boats, stand-up paddleboards and canoes. The Harrietstown Town Hall in downtown … Read more
The Saranac Lake Irish Gaelic Organization (SLIGO) announced today that Kelly Morgan Duprey was selected to serve as grand marshal of the 2024 St. Patrick’s Day parade. The parade’s grand marshal is selected each year by a vote of its former grand marshals. Morgan-Duprey, the choice for this year’s grand marshal, will lead the parade … Read more
Casey Reardon isAdirondack Health’s new emergency preparedness coordinator. Reardon spent more than 20 years in law enforcement, the majority of which were served with the Saranac Lake Village Police Department, including time as assistant chief. Reardon said his experience as a local police officer has allowed him to step into his new role at Adirondack … Read more
North Country Community College is inviting the public to join the college community for a program about the upcoming total solar eclipse. Seth McGowan, president of the Adirondack Sky Center and Observatory in Tupper Lake, will present “The Great Adirondack Eclipse” at 3 p.m. on Friday, March 8. The program will take place in S-19, … Read more
Lake Placid native and award-winning photojournalist Kay Jones will be among four inductees into the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Hall of Fame, March 23 at Mt. Van Hoevenberg. Sun Community News reports the ceremony, slated for the Mountain Lodge at 5:30 p.m., will be held in conjunction with the BMW IBSF World Cup finals in … Read more