Things are on track for a new lift to be spinning at the Whiteface Mountain ski center for the 2025-26 winter season. The new ...

The 24th annual Lake Placid Film Festival promises to be communal, educational, enlightening and a whole lot of fun. The annual film festival officially starts Thursday, Oct. 30 and runs through ...

Like snowflakes that fall from the sky, no ski trail is quite the same when it comes to snowmaking. It’s easy enough to take ...

The Lake Placid girls soccer team’s hopes of making a run at the Section VII, Class D title came to a heartbreaking end on ...

The Lake Placid boys soccer team found out how difficult it is to win three games against a single opponent. On Oct. 23, the ...

Around 20 years ago, Wyatt Friedlander got his first taste of hockey, skating on the Lake Placid Olympic Center ice. Back ...

Election workers smile at the Lake Placid Beach House on Tuesday, Oct. 28. It’s one of two early voting sites in Essex County. From left, Mary Shubert, Jean Mussen, Paula Politi and Gale Drinkwine.

This is the maquette, or rough draft, of the Miracle on Ice monument planned for Lake Placid. The sculpture was designed by Rob Eccelston, formerly of Lake Placid and now of Loveland, Colorado. The ...

LAKE PLACID — In the annual Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards, the Mirror Lake Inn Resort and Spa received a pair of notable distinctions. The publication’s readers voted the Mirror Lake Inn ...

LAKE PLACID — The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism has received two awards from the New York State Tourism Industry Association at a ceremony that took place during the organization’s 2025 ...

Phillip J. Wilsey, of Middleburgh, New York, and formerly of Lake Placid, passed away on Oct. 19, 2025, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany. He was born in Middleburgh on May 26, 1941, the son of Ike ...