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Opinion

Safe handling of breast milk and formula

Columns

Parents have been sending me lots of questions about how to properly store and prepare breast milk and infant formula. Let me thaw out some answers that will answer those questions. - Storing expressed or pumped breast milk - Ideally, breast milk should be stored in batches of two ...

101-year-old Lake Placid News

Columns

I hope all my dear readers are impressed with the logo above and this historical document known as the Lake Placid News of 101 years ago. The masthead on page two — “Official Newspaper of the Village of Lake Placid, Essex County, New York. Daniel Winters, Publisher. Entered in the Lake ...

Food for thought

Columns

Tuesday morning I was headed up Route 86, almost at the Trudeau Road turnoff, when I saw blue and red lights flashing in my rearview mirror. I immediately pulled over and a few minutes later the Rescue Squad ambulance flew by. The symbolism was painfully appropriate: Me driving to Cavu on one ...

Sacrificing green space to ‘save’ it

Guest Commentary

I have spent years fighting for an all-of-the-above energy policy that protects both our environment and the pocketbooks of upstate New Yorkers. Yet, the more I watch Albany’s aggressive Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) and the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) ...

Setting the record straight in Tupper Lake

Letters to the editor

As the town of Tupper Lake supervisor, I feel the time has come for me to make a stand and set the record straight on a number of issues and accusations that have been leveled against me and the town of Tupper Lake. First and foremost, let me be clear that this conflict of interest issue is ...