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Columns

Thanks for the memories

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 ...

Giving will

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 ...

Thrilling drama unfolds at Adirondack summer camp

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 ...

Election poll workers

This is the first year I will be a poll worker. My children tell me I shouldn’t leave out words because the election part of the phrase is important. I won’t be dancing around a pole this year, though the image is appealing. Instead, I will work my second day today, Tuesday, as an election ...

Wildland carry capacity conundrum

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 ...