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Goodbye summer harvest

To summer tomatoes, and cucumbers, too; plump eggplants and peppers, we bid you adieu. It has been a warm fall, but October has arrived. We have had frosts. Thursday night was the coldest yet this season — just 23 degrees Farenheit. Tender summer crops — such as zucchini, ...

Zipper merge on I-490 Rochester project

Nearly 10 years ago, something new — the “zipper merge” — was discussed in a “Safety on the Roads” column. Over the summer, the state Department of Transportation has implemented a zipper merge on I-490 in Rochester, where new bridges are being constructed over the Erie Canal and ...

Ski center considered for Whiteface

The following news is from the Feb. 17, 1940 edition of the Enterprise. “Interest in the proposed development of a Whiteface Mountain ski center to serve the entire Northern Adirondack region was evinced by representatives of several towns and villages [names, names, names?] who attended ...

Two-minute warning

This week, I watched my son’s intense college soccer game at SUNY Plattsburgh. The Cardinals were down by a goal — demonstrating one of sports’ great paradoxes: the score doesn’t always reflect the quality of play. The announcer boomed the two-minute warning, inciting chaos. The ...

What if my kid is caught cheating?

With classroom activities in full-swing, parents have been asking me some honest questions as to what to do if their child is caught cheating. Cheating, as you all know, is when a person deceives others or acts dishonestly on purpose. It can happen at school, in a sport, or at ...

The high tech/dreck nexus

I’m sure there are lots of people my age who are perfectly in tune with the 21st century. But I’m not one of them. It’s the new technologies that done laid me to waste, advancing light years in mere decades and leaving me in the dust. Luckily, I don’t need most of it, so I don’t ...