If you take the road from Paul Smith’s towards Malone, about 6 miles north, McCollom’s Cemetery comes into view on the right. Just beyond the entrance to the cemetery is the spire marking the graves of Amiel C. and Eliza Ann McCollom and their five children. Amiel, born in 1819, and ...

With the demise of brick and mortar stores, more folks are ordering online with the assurance that what they don’t like or doesn’t fit, they can easily return. This has exploded into the habit of ordering several pairs of shoes, or bathing suits, or jackets, trying them all on and ...

Much attention has been given recently to the question of whether to allow marijuana dispensaries in our communities, specifically the town of North Elba and the village of Lake Placid. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) in March of 2021. This ...

Take a moment and place yourself in the Fall of 1989. Your Yankees are finishing the first of what will become four consecutive losing seasons. Next year, the owner will get suspended from the team, banned from baseball, and it will be a tough stretch as a fan of the Bronx ...

To provide work for unemployed writers during the 1930s Great Depression, the Library of Congress created the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). One of the FWP’s most interesting endeavors was “Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States.” Writers interviewed more than ...

Adirondack North Country Pride returns to Plattsburgh on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. in Trinity Park. This is the sixth annual pride event held in the Adirondack North Country celebrating diversity, inclusion and respect for all people regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender ...