Dear Gov. Kathy Hochul, The undersigned former board members and former employees of the Adirondack Park Agency are writing to express our opposition to the proposed relocation of the agency’s headquarters to a new location in the village of Saranac Lake. Our reasons for taking this ...

It’s no secret that recent years have been tough on small businesses and on newspapers. A bipartisan bill, the Community News and Small Business Support Act, that has been introduced in Congress would offer relief to both newspapers and local businesses. For too many newspapers, help ...

A major state agency wants to locate its headquarters in Saranac Lake’s Downtown. Of course, that’s great news. Up to 55 employees, plus dozens of daily visitors, will be walking past our Downtown storefronts, looking for a place to eat, a cup of coffee, or maybe some shopping before, ...

Who among us hasn’t felt horrified by something in our lives? Andrea L. Rogers’ “Man Made Monsters” illuminates the monsters we encounter daily, the ones that have plagued us for years, and the ones that are still to come. This collection of horror stories, written by “Mary and ...

Dr. Robert Davis was director of the Madison Project, commissioned at Syracuse University to study the reasons for students having difficulties learning mathematics — a response to the launch of Sputnik in 1957 presumed to indicate a failure in our teaching of mathematics and physics. He and ...

A potato that looked like Bob Hope was recently discovered in South Dakota. No, no, really. A Ms. Katie Kelly found it sitting in a wooden potato bin at a noticeably unremarkable Piggly Wiggly supermarket. She keeps a copy of The Global Reporter that covered the story in her linen closet as ...