Parents have been sounding off to me with lots of questions about heart murmurs in their children. Allow me to get to the heart of the matter and provide some information on this topic. A heart murmur is simply a noise heard by a stethoscope between the beats of the heart due to the flow ...

Sunday’s fireworks signaled the official end of Winter Carnival. But it ended for me the day before — as soon as the Brothers of the Bush strutted their bad selves past the reviewing and into one more chapter of Carnivals past. With me and this year’s Carnival, enough was almost too ...

Aristotle was a walker. He liked to walk so much that he would meet his colleagues on the grounds of the Lyceum, a temple in Athens, and stroll through the covered walkways while exploring philosophical and scientific theories. Today, Aristotle’s school is commonly known as the Peripatetic ...

In 1982, I stood outside the dressage arena at the Franklin County Fair in Malone, New York. Groomed and braided, Holly the horse and I baked in the oppressive heat and swirling dust of Adirondack August. Stuffed in a stiff polyester jacket, I yanked at my stock tie, a complicated noose-like ...

After the parade and the fireworks, the mourning period begins for the completion of another Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. The whole event from each committee member, volunteer, sponsor, parade float organizer, participant and all the Ice Palace Workers — Local 101 deserves a moment of ...