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 ...

Every small town, village and urban neighborhood has one — a restaurant that defines the people who live there, a place where you are known to the owners and their family, where your kids might have worked when they were first starting to look for that high school job — a place that knows ...

There was no shortage of talent among the founders of the United States. Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison are the most prominent in a long list of extraordinary, accomplished individuals. George Washington would not be included in this ...