An article in the Albany Times Union by staff writer Steve Hughes on Oct. 27 caught my attention. It stated that 12,895 speeding tickets were issued to drivers in Albany who exceeded the posted 20-mph speed limit in school zones by more than 10 mph above the limit. And that was in only four ...

There seems to be some confusion from a year-old story. In a Facebook post from November 2023, announcing my appointment as editor/publisher of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News, some people are now under the assumption that I’ve just been promoted to the position and ...

It was the Day of the Dead, so naturally, I was thinking of dead people. My first catastrophic loss was my beloved goldfish, Romeo and Juliet. Doomed from the start, they lived a short and happy life repeatedly discovering their castle, until I found them belly up, side by side. My ...

The bed is empty. That’s the first of sentence of Liz Moore’s novel, “The God of the Woods.” Louise Donnadieu, a summer camp counselor, sneaks back into the cabin after a night of partying to find one bed empty. Barbara is gone. From here, the Adirondack-based story takes off like ...

As I cruised Facebook the other day I saw a post about Lower Saranac Lake and the efforts by environmental groups to determine the lake’s carrying capacity. No one seemed to like the idea. The comments ranged from conspiracy theories, “They want to make the lake private access only for ...