The Village of Lake Placid is responsible for highway, water, sewer, police, fire and electric. It always amazes me that the work that gets done is done by only 72 full-time employees, a few part-timers and our volunteer fire department. When you consider that we live in an area that has ...

Last month David “Chris” Maland, 44, U.S. Border Patrol Agent and a Veteran, was murdered in the line of duty in Northern Vermont. Last week was the Chinese lunar new year. Time for story in David’s honor and memory. In the summer of 2011 (or 2012?) I was driving to a monthly drill ...

Children start to learn in utero, months before birth. They hear their mother sing or talk, and their brain neurons connect to identify separate sounds, or phonemes, like “ma.” During their first year they learn that connected phonemes have meaning, like “mama” means mother, and then ...

With the new year underway, I wanted to provide a general update to our community concerning the work we have been doing to bolster Adirondack Health’s sustainability and expand access to care. As previously communicated, Adirondack Health posted an operating loss in fiscal year 2022 of ...

There has always been a segment of the political class that has maintained power by keeping people frightened and angry enough to vote accordingly when they are promised protection. The United States has plenty of real enemies, but when they are no longer sufficiently scary, politicians invent ...

I don’t know about everyone else, but I have felt my anxiety rising this week. Whether you are happy or not about the coming change of government and administration of our country, we could all agree that there is still a certain experience of division that lies ahead. Division of beliefs ...