This week is the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day. Of all the things we can reflect upon during this time, I think it is important to remember what Earth Day was first designed for: protest. One blustery January day in 1969, an oil rig off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, ...

This is not the time for politics. This is not the time to push agendas. This is not the time to potentially weaken our communities’ resolve to hold down COVID-19 in our region. Yet that is what Rep. Elise Stefanik, in her new role on the Federal Task Force to Open the Economy, is doing. She ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a crimp in our Earth Day festivities, even as it has given us a glimpse of a natural world benefitting from our human absence. Whales frolic in the Mediterranean, the Himalayas have unparalleled visibility, and global greenhouse gas emissions have fallen. As we ...

First, I offer my solace to those throughout New York state affected by the coronavirus. The following is from my submission to the Adirondack Park Agency regarding the state’s plan for the Remsen-Lake Placid Travel Corridor. The state proposes to convert the 34 miles of railroad between ...

The old neighborhoods of Saranac Lake are lively these days as people of all ages take a break from solitude to go out walking at all hours. Like the tuberculosis patients of the past, we are eager to stretch our legs, breathe some fresh air and wave to a friendly face across the ...

I met Dick DePuy covering my first village board meeting on my very first day working at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. It was November 1986, and I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Sure, I had gotten a degree in journalism at a New York City college and was thrilled to be in my very ...