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Saranac Lake is all page one

Ed Worthington was throwing his hat in the ring for the GOP nomination for Harrietstown Supervisor, Frank Buck was resigning as Saranac Lake Village Manager and train service to Malone had been restored. - The Worthington story - “Edward H. Worthington, Jr., announced today his ...

Soothing soups

It’s November. Days are gray, short, dark and dreary. Halloween and elections are behind us. Thanksgiving and Christmas loom ahead. It’s time to calm frayed nerves with soothing soup. Golden squashes, colorful root vegetables and tough winter greens combine to make autumn soups and stews ...

The sweetest day of the year

Early November has always been a dark time for me, literally and figuratively. The culprit is Daylight Savings Time — something that’s never made a lick of sense. So now it gets light an hour earlier, bringing joy unbounded to people who love to get up at dawn, damn their big bright ...

12,895 speeding tickets in 10 days in school speed zones

An article in the Albany Times Union by staff writer Steve Hughes on Oct. 27 caught my attention. It stated that 12,895 speeding tickets were issued to drivers in Albany who exceeded the posted 20-mph speed limit in school zones by more than 10 mph above the limit. And that was in only four ...

Thanks for the memories

There seems to be some confusion from a year-old story. In a Facebook post from November 2023, announcing my appointment as editor/publisher of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News, some people are now under the assumption that I’ve just been promoted to the position and ...

Giving will

It was the Day of the Dead, so naturally, I was thinking of dead people. My first catastrophic loss was my beloved goldfish, Romeo and Juliet. Doomed from the start, they lived a short and happy life repeatedly discovering their castle, until I found them belly up, side by side. My ...