The first medical system to care for soldiers wounded in battle was created by Dominque-Jean Larrey (1766-1842), a surgeon in Napoleon’s Grand Army. Larrey saw that men were dying of treatable wounds because there was no mechanism for retrieving them until the fighting was over. He organized ...
I was a child of the 1950s who grew up believing in heroes like Superman, the Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers. But like most of you, as I grew up I found out that there weren’t very many heroes in real life. When I first met Michael Xavier Spillane I would never have realized what a hero he ...
Over the past year, I’ve heard two very different narratives about rural America. The first is that rural people face enormous economic and social challenges and the federal government does little to help them. The second is that the coronavirus pandemic has turned rural places into refuges ...
There is a great deal of hype about the coronavirus vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine) which on Friday, Dec. 11 received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration allowing the vaccine to be administered in the United States. This news is welcome but it is ...
In the Christmas of ’95, Santa brought 3-year-old me my first pair of boots and bindings. That winter I met Natalie Leduc at Pisgah, who taught me to “make pizza and French fries” with my skis down the Buttermilk trail. Every year after, Nat and I entered the Top of the Mountain Ski Race ...
In the final election results, Biden won 51.3% to 46.8%, by +4.5% with 7 million votes. The polling averages had Biden around +7% or +8% nationally the night before Election Day. With a historically normal sized polling error of 3% to 4%, you would expect Biden between +4% and +11%. The ...
For over 40 years, Pendragon has been the backbone of theater in the Adirondacks. We have created and nourished a family dedicated to providing creative and excellent theater for you, our audience, through performance and educational programs. This past January, we opened Act I of the 2020 ...
As COVID-19 cases were rising dramatically the week before Thanksgiving, a teacher who tested positive for the virus continued to work — with no mask — at the Little Lambs Christian Dayschool in Radford, Virginia. Staff members were not required to wear masks as they cared for toddlers and ...
I am writing to respond to the recent (Dec. 3) opinion piece by Rich Lowry of King Features Syndicate, entitled “Biden ready to lose control of immigration.” It is an article filled with underlying hatred and lack of compassion for immigrants living in the United States. We have long ...
It is not a hoax. COVID-19 is real, and it is here. Almost half the village of Saranac Lake employees have tested positive or are quarantined. Our North Country region has more cases than at any other time during this pandemic. We also have a higher level of percent positives than any ...
The article entitled “Stefanik backs Trump fight,” appearing in the Dec. 4 issue of the Press-Republican, raises some interesting questions about logic and logical thinking. For instance, if as Rep. Elise Stefanik states, “she has seen numerous examples of dead people voting,” not ...
During the first wave of COVID-19 in the spring of this year, assisted living communities across New York state reacted swiftly and comprehensively to minimize the spread of the virus within. Adult care facilities (ACFs) were mandated to test all staff every week, and this will likely remain ...
In 2019 Gov. Andrew Como unveiled his “Green New Deal” that set a goal of 75% all-renewable electrical energy for New York state by 2030. This “vision” included nuclear as well as hydroelectric power, which together contribute about 50% of the state’s electrical energy. Wind farms, ...
Last Monday’s editorial (“FDA must get it right, and fast with vaccines,” Nov. 30) injects a note of caution into the news that two companies are applying to Food and Drug Administration for Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) so they can make their vaccines available to the public. As ...
November is National Hospice Awareness Month. Our High Peaks Hospice began in the Tri-Lakes almost 40 years ago with the vision and hard work of the late Dr. David Merkel. Yes, hospice is about dying — that scary, not-to-be-thought-of-but-inevitable event. Facing our death or the death of a ...
Throughout the year at St. Bernard’s School, we hold positivity as a light by which we are guided in our words, actions and decisions. Hope is both a result and a cause of positivity. During the month of November, we are focusing on the virtue of hope. We teach the children that to offer ...
“Chirp,” the latest work by North Country author Kate Messner, is a children’s chapter book that explores the topic of sexual harassment in an age-appropriate way. It’s relatively short, yet packed with timely themes layered within engaging story lines. The main character, Mia, ...
Please, help protect our community so our kids can get back to school. In-person learning is important to our local children getting the education they need to prepare them for the world. That’s especially true of students in our BOCES programs, which put an emphasis on hands-on, ...
Newton’s third law of physics states that “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” This perhaps provides a framework for examining the standoff that exists between the forces of Donald Trump and the forces of Joe Biden. When applied to human behavior, we hope the ...
In 2007, University of Michigan professor Ronald Inglehart and a colleague analyzed religious trends from 1981 to 2007 in 49 countries comprising 60% of global population. In 33 of these countries — including former communist, developing and wealthy nations — people had become more ...