Page One was loaded with local stories, 67 years ago, from Lake Placid’s First Annual Eastern Invitational Ski Jump to the Saranac Lake Free Library looking to buy the Guild House. And you know what else? Jim Ellis and John McGill won oratorical awards ... and my friend, Mr. Ellis, hasn’t ...
Most of our project funding is debt. Right now, Saranac Lake’s outstanding water and sewer debt is $21.9 million. Most, not all, of this debt is 0% interest, but it all must be repaid. Our accumulated debt includes such things as the LaPan Avenue sewer line, the Dorsey Street stormwater ...
To the editor: Are we trying to eat the entire elephant in one bite? After years of not listening to our fire department, we now need a firehouse. Great, let’s take that bite. If we had listened to the firemen, it wouldn’t be an emergency right now. We would have planned for it decades ...
I’m on my way to Singapore to visit my father with my daughter C, 40,000 feet above ground, hurtling through thin air at 500 miles an hour, feeling a bit lost and restless. There is an atemporality and aspatiality to air travel that at once saddens me and wakes me up. - The freedom of ...
While I’ve never thought of myself anything special. but I think one thing distinguishes me from most people. It is I’ve lived my whole life through radio. Of course that was a given when I was a kid, since when it came to electronic home entertainment, radio was the only game in town. In ...