“Call me! Call me for some overtime...call me!” — Blondie Okay, all of you who are terrible at finding things, please raise your hands. So, let’s see ... by my count, that’s exactly ... all of us. Right now, I can’t find my reading glasses (forgive the typos). This morning I ...

In honor of Women’s History month, this week’s book review discusses “Bold and Courageous: 25 North Country New York Women and Their Exceptional Contributions” by Daniel LaDue. The author is a retired English and Spanish teacher and librarian. A Plattsburgh native, LaDue still lives ...

When I was the director of North Country Community College’s Wilderness Recreation Leadership Program, my staff and I worked ceaselessly to assess student outdoor leaders transparently and fairly. We ended up with a sophisticated assessment process, but when all was said and done, we had a ...

We’ve all been next to the person with the crying baby. If you want to get technical about the situation, we have all been that crying baby. I recently attended an event where a mother desperately attempted to soothe her crying child. There was no amount of food, holding or nursing to ...