The teacher’s pets would be called up to her desk. They, in turn, would pass out the precious gray and turquoise newsprint workbooks. This would signal the best part of the fourth-grade curriculum — map skills. Compass rose, mileage scales, longitude and latitude: Each new bit of ...

Some people may have had their first introduction to a sourdough starter during the COVID shutdown. It was a novelty and necessity. Making bread became a family activity. Store bread was sometimes unavailable, and there was a yeast shortage. I loved watching all the recipes being posted on ...

Last summer I wrote a column about drivers who were using fake license plates or were purposefully obstructing their license plates to avoid paying tolls. Much of the focus around license plate fraud and “ghost vehicles” has been concentrated in the New York City area, which boasts a higher ...

Yesterday was Mother’s Day. Did you cook a delicious meal for mom or take her out to a favorite restaurant? What is mom’s favorite meal? When I moved out of the dorm into an apartment, I would often call home, asking how mom made something-or-other, and serve it to my housemates. Our ...

Let me first draw your attention to the caption under the 1909 photo which documents the building of the ‘yellow brick roads’ in Saranac Lake. Also, every few years the Colby Beach jumps into the news because many, many residents want the beach returned to Lake Flower — as Village ...

Last week’s column was about my first day in boot camp, at Camp Barry, which was the processing camp. It was an introduction to boot camp, a warm-up act for the main show. We’d be there for only a couple of days and then be formed into a regular company and moved to Camp Dewey, where we’d ...