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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

I think T.S. Elliott’s best-known lines are “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.” They are, of course, his best-known because they seem the only ones anyone knows. But poetic snottiness aside, last Saturday I couldn’t have cared less about how the world ...

Saranac Lake loves a parade, and Saturday’s was one for the ages. About 100 entries danced through town, cheered on by enormous crowds. There were so many fabulous entries, like Saranac Lake Marina’s “Yacht Rocks” and John and Yoko’s “Bed-In for World Peace,” the Lawn Chair ...

It is the Monday after Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. At the risk of being disowned, disavowed or run out of town with a pitchfork and ski pole, as far as I am concerned, the snow can make like Frosty, and melt. With a proper winter under our belt, we had fun, right? We skied, we skated, ...