On Feb. 18, I attended and spoke at the Saranac Lake Central School Board Public Hearing regarding the closure of Bloomingdale School. I was one of many people in the crowd who read statements and asked questions of the school board. I was one of only two members from the community, of the ...
To the editor: This week, I witnessed an accident in front of the Town Hall of North Elba. An elderly man had fallen and sustained an open wound to his forehead on the sidewalk in front of the town hall. There was quite a bit of blood on the sidewalk, which had come from the wound on ...
To the editor: I am writing regarding Village Trustee Kelly Brunette, who is currently campaigning for mayor on a platform centered around transparency and affordability. These are values that matter deeply to our community, and they deserve thoughtful examination. Public records ...
A new book by Curt Stager and David Fadden, “The First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of Indigenous Peoples in the Adirondack Uplands,” makes its purpose clear. The authors are, respectively, a Paul Smiths College professor and the third-generation director of Six Nations Iroquois Cultural ...
Last week sadly, another wilderness traveler died of hypothermia in the High Peaks Wilderness. News of such calamities reminds me that winter isn’t an abstraction or a romantic postcard—it’s a force to be reckoned with. People often ask how I endure winter camping. I wouldn’t call it ...