More people are shedding their masks these days, and it’s obvious they’re happy about it. You can see it in the smiles that have been hidden for so long. With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent announcement that fully vaccinated people no longer must wear masks to ...

This week’s Straw Poll: Should the Canadian border be reopened June 21, when the current 30-day closure order expires? - This poll is not scientific, and its results represent only the opinions of Internet users who have chosen to participate.

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead,” the English writer G.K. Chesterton wrote in his 1908 book “Orthodoxy.” “Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be ...

Local governments should absolutely begin reopening meetings to the public. Garnering public opinion is difficult when meetings are held electronically, and the public should be able to more easily participate in local government. That doesn’t mean video streams should go away, however. ...

In the interest of fairness, we don’t usually comment much about those who appear in our obituaries. But the death of John Van Anden took the wind out of our sails this week — and yet also filled us with fond memories of him and his wonderful family. People who have only lived in Saranac ...

In electoral politics, to the victor go the spoils. But some go to unreasonable lengths to enjoy the spoils of their electoral victories. Assemblyman Andrew Goodell, R-Jamestown, recently exhorted Democrats in the Assembly to include Republicans on a cyberbullying task force. The group would ...