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This newspaper, along with Lake Placid News, was purchased by William M. Doolittle Jr. in 1970. [2] Nearly fifty years later researchers uncovered that the newspaper, which "has trumpeted 'since 1894' for a generation in its masthead," originated in 1895.
On October 1, 2023, McSpadden was killed in an aircraft accident in Lake Placid, New York. He was 63. [8] [9] [10] He and former American football player Russ Francis were flying a Cessna 177 out of Lake Placid Airport when the aircraft's engine failed. They attempted to return to the airport but crashed into a ravine near it.
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In 1977 The New York Times used the phrase "vigorous criticism" to describe opposition by Lake Placid News to "total disregard for the safety of the people who hike the state's trails." [ 10 ] The Times noted their reporting about what a local association called "a desecration" of "the only site in the state that has anything to do with the ...
In preparation for the Lake Placid Olympics, Hogg "requested funding of the ecumenical religious ministry at the 1980 Olympic Winter Cames at Lake Placid, N.Y." [13] He was also active in ecumenism with the Roman Catholic Church, encouraging the merger of schools of the two different denominations into Doane Stuart School in 1975. [14]
On October 1, 2023, Francis and AOPA Air Safety Institute vice president Richard McSpadden were both killed in a plane crash in Lake Placid, New York, after the 1976 Cessna 177 flown by Francis out of Lake Placid Airport experienced power failure and attempted to return to the airport, but struck a berm on the runway and crashed into a ravine. [31]
Statue of Art Devlin at the Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumping Complex. Arthur "Art" Donovan Devlin (September 7, 1922 – April 22, 2004) was an American ski jumper who competed during the 1950s. A native of Lake Placid, New York, he finished fifth in the individual large hill at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships which were held in Lake ...
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