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Enjoy evening winter activities

There are many ways to enjoy winter, nature and the snow. During the day, it’s easy to recreate. There are limited opportunities to enjoy an outdoor winter experience unless you have the equipment and expertise to trek at night. Yes, anyone can go outside and play in the snow, but sometimes ...

Simple arithmetic

Girl Math. I bristled as I heard my son Quin playfully toss the term to his fiancee. I had heard it before, but never really paid attention. Initially, I thought this must be an insult equivalent to throwing like a girl or gossiping like an old woman. But as I silently fumed, Yasmin laughed ...

Soups for chilly days

Winter is soup weather — and what a winter this has been! And oh, there is such a variety of soups! What’s your favorite? Split Pea and Ham. Lentil. Chicken noodle. Turkey and rice. Barley. Minestrone. Potato. Bean. Italian Wedding. Clam chowder. One of the oldest culinary inventions ...

Traffic enforcement results in nearly 130,000 tickets

Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced that a total of 129,686 tickets were issued statewide as part of the national “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” traffic enforcement period between Christmas and New Year’s Day. The initiative, which targeted impaired and reckless drivers, ran from Dec. ...

Fire destroys Berkeley Hotel

When the Berkeley Hotel burned down, it seemed to me as through we lost half of Saranac Lake’s business section. As a kid living here in the early 1940s, I have fond memories of that section of Broadway. Those fond memories stretched forward to my days at the Enterprise, which was then ...