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Guest Commentary

Will we take action on road salt?

Seeing salt on the road may help winter drivers feel safe, but it comes at a price. It has become abundantly clear that our state’s addiction to road salt has caused widespread harm to our environment and to ourselves. This week, a historic state-issued report was released confirming the ...

It takes a community to host a music festival

The organizing committee of the Northern Current Music Festival extends its immense gratitude to the greater Saranac Lake community for making this year’s event the best to date. Since taking over the tradition of free live music on the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend from Peter Seward, Todd ...

A life-changing resource

The Saranac Lake Health Association is a life changing resource. We genuinely care, and we have since 1897, by providing no-cost health related services to those who need it, where they need it, within the Saranac Lake Central School District. In our beginning, we provided nursing services ...

Get your start in the world of amateur radio

Kudos to the Champlain Valley Amateur Radio Club and Bob Grabowski (KB5RG of Texas) on the recent station to station QSO between silos. Amateur radio (“Ham radio”) is the world’s oldest and first electronic/wireless/digital social media. For well over 113 years, people have been ...

The future is bright

As I prepared to drive to my new post as assistant principal at St. Agnes School, I was surprised by two visitors at my door. They didn’t knock or ring the bell, they just made themselves at home and walked in. My two golden doodle guard dogs performed circus-worthy leaps and attacked the ...

A case of Republican whine

It’s tempting to assume these are confusing and uncertain times to identify as Republican. Indictments, inquiries, expungements, obstruction, interference, seditious conspiracy, racketeering and stomping on basic human rights; it doesn’t inspire faith in the integrity of the Grand Old ...