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A small business with a big heart

Every small town, village and urban neighborhood has one — a restaurant that defines the people who live there, a place where you are known to the owners and their family, where your kids might have worked when they were first starting to look for that high school job — a place that knows ...

Washington speaks to our time

There was no shortage of talent among the founders of the United States. Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison are the most prominent in a long list of extraordinary, accomplished individuals. George Washington would not be included in this ...

Identifying addictions and replacing them

Can we become addicted to a thought, a person, a perception? Doesn’t a thought become an addiction when it is repeated over and over again and is harmful — or at least unhealthy — for the thinker? If so, then a poor self-image can become an addiction when our thinking negatively about ...

A D-Day reflection

On April 22, the Enterprise reported on a “recent” trip by Donald Trump to Waco, Texas. (“Music to Trump’s ears: Whitewashing Jan. 6 riot with song,” Associated Press.) The focus of the story was on a song he seems to have enjoyed while there which made light of the Jan. 6 Capitol ...

Happy Pride Month!

June is LGBTQI-plus Pride Month, a time when LGBTQI-plus community members, family, friends and advocates acknowledge and celebrate the gift of diversity that is unique to each of us. Many municipalities host pride parades and events where LGBTQI-plus community members outwardly profess ...

Lexipol wrong about ‘excited delirium’

The Saranac Lake village board, under the leadership of then-Mayor Rabideau and then-Manager Sweeney, voted to sign a contract with Lexipol on Aug. 10, 2020. Lexipol is a for-profit company that provides policy manuals, daily training bulletins and consulting services to public safety ...