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Guest Commentary

A nightmare dressed up as a daydream

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community.” — Aldo Leopold Located on state Route 86 is one of the most naturally scenic vistas in the Adirondacks. People drive from near and far to capture a glimpse or a photo of the ...

A vision for Ampersand Avenue

Try as we might to forget them, we all remember the bike lanes that were painted along Ampersand Avenue last summer. While the village’s intent was appreciated, the execution was deficient and incomplete. The project was an appropriate response to the desire to make Ampersand Avenue a ...

Turning beauty to a blemish

We live on state Route 86 across from the site where the Adirondack Land Trust hopes to build a “circus” preserve named Glenview on their 238 acres so the public can have access to trails in the woods. Trust Executive Director Michael Carr called and met with us in our home a couple of ...

Why rank choice voting wouldn’t work

In a recent Enterprise letter to the editor (“The most dangerous phrase in our language,” March 17), Saranac Lake resident Jacob Vennie-Vollrath advocates the use of Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) in municipal elections. He writes that RCV elections allow for more candidates and produce fairer ...

What’s NCCC’s coding course all about?

Today, some high schoolers are learning programming. Entry-level coding has been becoming a commodity for decades. Since the 1990s, outsourcing has been pushing Americans out of entry-level software development jobs. Many LCCs (low-cost countries) gear their education systems to the job market ...

Message received

At December’s monthly Wilmington town board meeting, Deputy Supervisor Darin Forbes provided prepared remarks in which he stated, “The conception [sic] out there is we aren’t listening to people, so I really wanted to take some time for myself, plug some data into AirDNA, look at some of ...