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 ...

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 ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Regional Airport is keeping Cape Air as its commercial airline. The U.S. Department of Transportation has decided to continue its federal contract with the airline. The ...

My apologies to Hanna-Barbera Animation Company and to Quick Draw McGraw, their cartoon wild West Sheriff horse, for appropriating Quick Draw’s theme song. And yes, as I type these words, Snake Year ...

The Lake Placid Lions Club has had a busy start to the 2025-26 seasons involving the Annual Radio Auction, Children’s Christmas Party and bimonthly meetings to discuss club business, and upcoming ...

Tim Degrote, of Kerhonkson, is seen with his 4.65-pound northern pike, good for second place in the 11 a.m. to noon hour, at the Northern Challenge ice fishing derby on Simon Pond in the town of ...

Lake Placid’s Norah Francis competes in the Section VII Nordic ski championship finale at the Paul Smith’s College VIC on Feb. 12. (News photo — Parker O’Brien) PAUL SMITHS — The Saranac Lake boys and ...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Matt Weston doesn’t always win. It only seems that way. And at the Milan Cortina Olympics, the 28-year-old slider from Britain left no doubt — he’s the best skeleton racer ...

Tommy, Kelly, Marc, Olivia, and Joe Paradise (Kelly is Brooks’ daughter, Marc her husband, the rest their children). (Provided photo — Naj Wikoff) The new Netflix documentary, “Miracle: The Boys of 80 ...

Ashley Walden, Marc Galvin and Tim Burke (Provided photos by Naj Wikoff) Should (or could) Lake Placid host another Olympics? Not alone, but worth exploring was the consensus of the well-attended ...

USA Luge’s Sean Hollander, left, and Zack DiGregorio celebrate after earning a silver medal at the FIL Luge World Cup in Park City, Utah, on Dec. 12, 2025. (Provided photo — FIL/Michael Kristen) LAKE ...

He was born Jan. 26, 1955, in Lynn Massachusetts, the son of William R. and Joan H. Thorner Shaw. Arrangements are incomplete at this time. A full obituary with updated arrangements will be published ...