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Guest Commentary

Celebrating 125 years of health care

On May 11, the Saranac Lake Health Association, which was formerly the Saranac Lake Voluntary Health Association, held its annual meeting and began celebrating its 125th anniversary of providing health related services to Saranac Lake residents. Since its inception, the SLHA has served ...

If anything happens I love you

if anything happens i love you last texts are sent forgotten words are muttered under breaths footsteps creep along the door you grasp onto one another, please protect us. you’ve never been one to pray but God’s scriptures start to recite from your lips eyes bulge as tears ...

Who will be the adult in the room?

Is anyone else tired of the divisiveness in politics? We don’t need to watch it on television anymore, just go to a local meeting of our “so called” town leaders. When will we have politicians that understand that if people disagree, it doesn’t mean they are wrong? It means they ...

State-by-state abortion decisions would be step in right direction

After 50 years of furor, there is little new that can be said about legalized abortion, and few minds likely to be changed. But it is worth noting just what the current moment, with its possible impending overturn of Roe v. Wade, does and doesn’t portend, from a (spoiler alert) pro-life ...

Moral duty has no price cap

According to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), approximately 3.5 million military service personnel were exposed to the toxic fumes of burn pits — sites where garbage such as human and medical waste, construction materials, munitions, plastics, jet fuel and paint were ...

Different vacation rental approach needed

The town of North Elba/village of Lake Placid will be holding open houses on May 14 and 16 to display Lake Placid/North Elba Land Use Committee findings and get feedback from residents about proposed changes to the town and village STR laws and proposed updates to the land use code. On the ...