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Friends and Neighbors: Everyone has a story

The (robot) doctor is in

SARANAC LAKE — When Tri-Lakes resident Matt Cook has dialysis patients to see in Plattsburgh, Elizabethtown and Malone, it would usually take at least a one-hour drive between each clinic. But with new technology the Plattsburgh-based kidney disease clinic he works at has adopted in recent ...

Choosing positivity in 2023

SARANAC LAKE — The sound of a fiddle filled Saranac Lake’s Main Street Friday as 17-year-old Arden Calhoun pulled a bow across her violin’s strings, bringing smiles to the faces of people passing by. The smiles, hugs and support Calhoun received that day represented what she and several ...

Filming ‘Survivor’

LAKE PLACID — Katie Uhlaender, a five-time Olympic skeleton racer living at the Olympic Training Center, is flying to Fiji today to be part of the crew filming the 43rd season of the television reality show “Survivor.” “Survivor” is one of the most popular contest reality TV ...

Remembering a past love

Peru resident Robert Rokos met the love of his life in a bathhouse in New York City. It was 1973, not long after the birth of the city’s gay liberation movement. Rokos was 25 and white, Donald Townsel was 18 and Black, but their differences didn’t keep them apart. What started as ...

Love, carved in ice

SARANAC LAKE — Some people buy flowers for their sweethearts on Valentine’s Day. Others send greeting cards. Liam Ward uses a Makita die grinder with an 8-inch rotary knife spinning at 8,000 RPM to carve his and his wife Emily’s initials in the Ice Palace every year — a secret, ...