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Guest Commentary

Medication assisted treatment and addiction

Addiction is a complicated and difficult illness for anyone and everyone involved. For most people, the process of getting clean is a slow and difficult one, filled with many obstacles. It takes a lot of trial and error and is often just as painful and frustrating for loved ones as it is for ...

Census response is important

Your response to the Census is critical! It's easy, and it only takes a few minutes. The Census data helps direct the distribution of $675 billion in federal money each year. This funding goes to local villages and towns, to health care organizations such as hospitals, safety-net clinics, ...

Keep Saranac Lake blooming

One hundred and ten years ago a group of foresighted women came together in a small village to form an association dedicated to improving the aesthetics of their town. Early on they realized that an important component of that mission entailed the outright purchase of land so that it ...

Pregnancy center, moving forward

A recent Guest Commentary from David Lynch entitled “Stop the Adirondack Pregnancy Center” argues what the Adirondack Pregnancy Center is going to do before it even opens. The village has welcomed and embraced faith-based organizations like Samaritan House and Grace Pantry that serve our ...

When freedom rings hollow 

The renowned Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl (1905-1997) argued that freedom is not the “last word” in values and the ordering of human societies. Frankl stated freedom is only half the truth; the other half is responsibility. The just society will balance ...

Listen to community, not company for police reform ideas

I want to commend the Saranac Lake village board for tabling the allocation of $11,000 to Lexipol, a corporation that promises to provide law enforcement departments “with a ‘policy that is always up to date’ containing ‘legally defensible content’ that will ‘protect your agency ...