Thank you Sue Dyer and your daughter, Kathy, for resuscitating the historic Hanmer Races. Sue is simply continuing to do great things for Saranac Lake because she can’t stop after all the great things she did as executive director of the Chamber of Commerce. I loved working with Sue as a ...

With summer here, I find myself getting grilled by families asking about safety precautions they should be taking when they barbecue outside. I don’t want any backyard fireworks to occur, so let me provide some information on this topic ¯ Keep your children away from a grill and the ...

The other rainy morning at a local coffee shop an elderly man held the door for me. Whitehaired and slightly stooped, we exchanged smiles. As I walked out, a woman passed me going in. Out of the corner of my eye I saw the man touch the brim of an invisible hat and say to her, “M’lady,” ...

Stephen Cernek and I have some things in common. We both grew up in towns on the edge of the Adirondacks whose economies were shaped by paper mills — he in Corinth, myself in Plattsburgh — and we both graduated from high school in a turbulent time — he in 1969, one year after I ...