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My first and last days at LPC

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 ...

Dangerous baby products

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 ...

Crosswalk crosstalk

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 ...

Your attention please

“To pay attention, this our endless and proper work.” — Mary Oliver On July 26, 1926, newsman Albert Evans arrived at his office in the old Harrietstown Town Hall, on the daily beat for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. He had no way of knowing his place of work would soon be ...