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Headlight usage during inclement weather better

This week’s column is complimentary to local drivers for what I perceive to be a significant improvement in using full headlights during rainy days. Having written nearly 900 columns on vehicle and traffic laws and traffic safety over a period of more than 17 years, I cannot drive anywhere ...

Sweet alliums

As May turns into June, chives are blooming in our garden. The scallions I planted from roots salvaged from those purchased earlier in the season are getting tall. And the supermarket offers Vidalia onions from Georgia — the mildest onion variety. There are many other sweet onions, but ...

Basketball at its best

What a great way for the Saranac Lake High School scholarship fund to bolster its coffers than to host a world championship basketball team to play in the high school gym. The All-American Red Heads world champion women’s basketball team played the Hot Shot All Stars in a comedy-filled ...

Camping basics

Parents who plan to take their children camping this summer have been camped out on my doorstep asking me what they can do to make sure their children stay safe and healthy when going into the woods. Let me see if I can pitch some information on this topic — which is easier for me than ...

A day in the life and some life in the day

To say I’m a creature of habit is world-class understatement. If I had to explain it by analogy, I’d say I can make a monastery chockful of Benedictine monks look like escapees from a Fantasy Faire. You don’t believe me? Well, here’s my daily schedule. Read it and tell me what you ...