In the bloody wake of an insurrection on the Capitol by hordes of armed white supremacists and naive Trump supporters, the president-elect issued the following statement on Twitter: “No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protestors yesterday that they ...
I read John Salamy’s letter in the Tupper Lake Free Press on Dec. 29. John’s letter was well written and raised some good concerns as regards the proposal here in Tupper Lake by a group of businessmen and community members. The plan comes in four phases, focus is on the first phase for ...
Response to Thomas Jorling’s restraining order against the Adirondack Park Agency and LS Marina LLC: Lower Saranac Lake encompasses 2,285 acres with one marina and about 30 boathouses along the shoreline. Its neighbor Lake Placid encompasses 2,173 acres with three marinas, over 150 ...
The first medical system to care for soldiers wounded in battle was created by Dominque-Jean Larrey (1766-1842), a surgeon in Napoleon’s Grand Army. Larrey saw that men were dying of treatable wounds because there was no mechanism for retrieving them until the fighting was over. He organized ...
I was a child of the 1950s who grew up believing in heroes like Superman, the Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers. But like most of you, as I grew up I found out that there weren’t very many heroes in real life. When I first met Michael Xavier Spillane I would never have realized what a hero he ...
Over the past year, I’ve heard two very different narratives about rural America. The first is that rural people face enormous economic and social challenges and the federal government does little to help them. The second is that the coronavirus pandemic has turned rural places into refuges ...