A little-discussed effect of severe weather events — such as the flooding and harsh wind from Hurricane Beryl this month — is the impact on hospitals’ life-saving blood supply. The American Red Cross has had to cancel blood drives in New York as a result of the weather, and the ...
To the editor: Like everyone, I was shocked and appalled by the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13. But I’m more appalled by the glaring incompetence of the Secret Service and federal law enforcement agencies whose sole job was to protect Trump. The ...
To the editor: On July 22, the USLA Scholarship Fund, which awards annual scholarships to deserving Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake High School seniors, held its fifth annual golf tournament fundraiser at the Saranac Inn Golf Club. An enthusiastic group of 68 golfers, there to support area ...
The Lake Placid Club brought the 1932 Olympic Winter Games to Lake Placid and made Lake Placid famous. You all know the story. When my job ended as the writer of official reports for the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, I went looking for the next biggest game in town. That big game was the ...
Parents of infants have been crying out to me to ask if there are sleep products for their baby they should avoid buying or being given because they might be unsafe. I don’t want to baby the importance of this topic — so let me provide some information. Unsafe baby products for sleep ...
Without doubt, the scariest and most bad-rapped netherworld figure is The Grim Reaper. But unjustly so, sez I. To most people — Death Metal and Dungeon Synth fans to the contrary — he’s an object of fear...shivering, bone-chilling, knee-shaking fear. But he shouldn’t be. After ...