The Lake Placid senior softball league saw the Seminole Tire team come from behind with two outs in the last inning to earn a 13-12 victory over the Schooni's Family Restaurant team in league play on Wednesday. ...more

January 9, 2009

The 70 children and adults with cognitive and physical disabilities who play in the Miracle League baseball program at Lake June Park in Lake Placid will be getting a new rubberized playing surface. ...more

December 17, 2008

Lake June in Winter Scrub State Park and 18 other state parks might temporarily close for the 2009-2010 Fiscal Year. ...more

October 21, 2008

Participants at the Big Canoe Challenge will get a chance to paddle a massive canoe and help a local charity. ...more

October 10, 2008

LAKE PLACID — With a recent $50,000 donation from Glades Electric Cooperation Inc., Recreation Director John Komosa hopes the ongoing work at a baseball field for disabled players will finish up by September. New fences and benches already circle a playing field at June Park, in preparation for the future Miracle League Field. Installation of a special rubberized turf to protect players from injury is scheduled when funding is obtained. The Glades Electric donation goes a long way toward the $250,000 fundraising goal. The turf alone will cost $121,000, said Komosa. ...more

February 18, 2008

LAKE PLACID — John Komasa likes to scuba dive, ride a bike, read and just get out and take walks. Although an accountant by trade, he seems like a natural for a recreation director, and that's what he became a year and a half ago when he headed Lake Placid's parks and recreation department. "I'm not in as good as shape as I used to be, and I took this job to get from behind the desk," he said. ...more

January 14, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Should the town take the money and run or is land better? At last week's meeting, town attorney Bert Harris III asked the town council to consider whether impact fees negotiated with builders should be extracted in cash or land. ...more

December 19, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Seems like everybody is stepping up to the plate and making five new playing fields at Lake June Park and Sports Complex a reality. ...more

December 18, 2007

LAKE PLACID — Like her teammates, Julie Halkias marched to her craft with the tattoo "Killer 7" on her arm. Okay, it was a temporary drawing, and her group was the Heartland Vineyard Church, but don't miss the point. This was a team, and they were in it for ... well, not for blood, but they wanted to win pretty badly. The 14 canoeists crowded onto the floating dock at Lake June Park, ready to board, ready to put their muscles into it, ready to ... hmm, the dock started sinking. "We're taking on water here, coach. What do we do?" shouted Steve Halkias, more for comic relief than information. ...more

October 21, 2007

Oct. 6 was a great day. The first practice for the Miracle Baseball League took place in Lake Placid at Lake June Park. ...more

October 14, 2007