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Editorials

Stay informed with your local newspapers

With new developments regarding the coronavirus pandemic being announced throughout the day, every day — locally, statewide, nationally and globally — reporters and editors at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Lake Placid News have been working diligently to keep our readers informed in a ...

Lent for everyone

COVID-19 has made this one heck of a Lent. The 40-day period leading up to Easter is a time when many Christians focus on doing without. Some give up things they enjoy. Some fast, which can range from forgoing meals frequently to just skipping meat on Fridays. Some devote extra time to ...

Poll results, March 9 to 15

This week’s Web Poll: Which theme do you prefer for the 2021 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival? - These polls are not scientific, and their results represent only the opinions of Internet users who have chosen to participate.

Not every headline needs to be ‘gathering gloom’

Headlines can be tough to write sometimes. It’s especially hard when an editor has to write a big page 1 headline that overarches multiple articles on the same topic — such as coronavirus. The one we came up with for Saturday was “gathering gloom.” The word “gathering” was very ...

Good deals for conservation

Two important conservation-recreation programs are included in a deal reached between President Donald Trump and senators of both major parties. One is reinvigorating the Land and Water Conservation Fund. The other is augmenting federal funding to clear a backlog of maintenance work at national ...

Local news needed more than ever; help us provide it

The need for news is all the greater as coronavirus spreads throughout our state, nation and planet. And not just news of how it’s affecting the world, but how it’s affecting your home community. Is that event you wanted to go to canceled, and if not, what do health officials recommend ...