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Guest Commentary

It takes a community to host a music festival

The organizing committee of the Northern Current Music Festival extends its immense gratitude to the greater Saranac Lake community for making this year’s event the best to date. Since taking over the tradition of free live music on the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend from Peter Seward, Todd ...

The future is bright

As I prepared to drive to my new post as assistant principal at St. Agnes School, I was surprised by two visitors at my door. They didn’t knock or ring the bell, they just made themselves at home and walked in. My two golden doodle guard dogs performed circus-worthy leaps and attacked the ...

Get your start in the world of amateur radio

Kudos to the Champlain Valley Amateur Radio Club and Bob Grabowski (KB5RG of Texas) on the recent station to station QSO between silos. Amateur radio (“Ham radio”) is the world’s oldest and first electronic/wireless/digital social media. For well over 113 years, people have been ...

A case of Republican whine

It’s tempting to assume these are confusing and uncertain times to identify as Republican. Indictments, inquiries, expungements, obstruction, interference, seditious conspiracy, racketeering and stomping on basic human rights; it doesn’t inspire faith in the integrity of the Grand Old ...

Who really are the mugs?

Now we’ve got the mug shot. Apparently, Donald and Melania practice in front of the mirror with the eye squint, him trying to look like Churchill or Clint Eastwood, his heroes, not sure which. I’ve long suspected he has practiced the pursed lips way of talking, too. Our country has ...

Why would or should the Adirondack Park Agency leave Ray Brook?

The Adirondack Park Agency was established to be a regional land-use agency for the 6 million acres within the Adirondack Park. Just as important were environmental protections for wetlands and administration of the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan. From the very beginning of the ...