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New fire truck for Saranac Lake

News from June 1941 looks much like today’s news. According to an Enterprise article from Sept. 9 about Saranac Lake’s infrastructure project, the village board plans to purchase a new heavy rescue truck for the fire department for $900,000 by 2027. Prices have gone up a little in the ...

When to give advice as a grandparent

Perhaps because National Grandparents Day was Sept. 7, grandparents have begun to ask me for advice about how to tell their own children how to parent — which is interesting because parents frequently ask me how they should deal with grandparents who want to offer advice on every facet of ...

The comeback kid rides again

An old boxing adage, maybe the oldest, is “They never come back.” It means when pugs retire, it’s for a good reason, namely, they’re no longer at the top of their game. In fact, au contraire. And that’s why almost every boxer who came out of retirement, hoping he still had his ...

Adirondack advocacy and love for the land

David Gibson’s new biography, “A Force for Nature: Paul Schaefer’s Adirondack Coalitions,” brings attention to an important advocate for the Adirondack Park. Brought up in Schenectady, Schaefer’s focus began in the Warren County community of Bakers Mills, where his family bought a ...