Robert Kennedy, in his run for the U.S. Senate, arrived at the Adirondack Regional Airport in June 1964, and I, as host mayor of Saranac Lake, rounded up all the Democrats in town and we all got in on » Full Story

Hey, you know what? A guy walks into an office (you all thought I was going to say a guy walks into a bar, right?) of the New York Herald Tribune in New York City and says to the guy doing the hiring, » Full Story

Memorial Day has just passed and Polly (Sweet) Brady has spent another year searching for the military medals awarded to her Uncle Richard Sweet, who was killed in action in World War II.

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A majority of the stories from the 1940’s copies of the Syracuse Post-Standard and the Syracuse Herald-Journal, given to me by Barbara Kent, cover some aspect of WWII — the battles, those fighting the » Full Story

Anytime we chose to look at history, we find the good, the bad and the indifferent. Once more, the following news is taken from the Syracuse Herald-Journal and the Post-Standard, both from 1943.
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Judging by the response from readers, others must get a kick out of stories from the past as much as I do — and, of course, as Barbara Kent does, who gave me old copies of the Syracuse Herald Journal » Full Story

The cost of newsprint keeps going up, and newspapers keep getting smaller (and we are not talking about tabloids). Old copies of the Enterprise, the Syracuse Herald American and the Syracuse Post-Stan » Full Story

Well, with the price of gold going right off the end of the scale, my friend Barbara Kent went panning for nuggets — where else? — at the Goldmine on the Bloomingdale Road. The late Orville Paye, Barb » Full Story

Bill Jandrew, who lives in Wappingers Falls but is a Saranac Lake native, keeps in touch through e-mail on occasion about local happenings. He had discovered this rock on the river above the locks las » Full Story