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Letters to the editor

Won’t you be my neighbor?

To the editor: Last week I invited our village trustees and emergency service personnel to come sit on my porch for light refreshments and conversation with interested village residents about the 33 Petrova project (across the street from my house). Not many Saranac Lake residents may be ...

Secret Service must be held accountable

To the editor: Like everyone, I was shocked and appalled by the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13. But I’m more appalled by the glaring incompetence of the Secret Service and federal law enforcement agencies whose sole job was to protect Trump. The ...

USLA Scholarship Fund thanks

To the editor: On July 22, the USLA Scholarship Fund, which awards annual scholarships to deserving Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake High School seniors, held its fifth annual golf tournament fundraiser at the Saranac Inn Golf Club. An enthusiastic group of 68 golfers, there to support area ...

Let’s be neighbors again

To the editor: Dan Reilly’s commentary on residency requirements for Saranac Lake elected officials (“The new politics do not help Saranac Lake,” July 24) mischaracterizes my recent letter to the editor and continues the completely unexpected personal attacks against me by Dan that he ...

Get the facts straight

To the editor: I must rebut Dan Reilly’s guest commentary (“The new politics do not help Saranac Lake”) of July 24. Too many errors of fact and misstatements. He refers to my “erroneous understanding of the state election law residency requirement.” In my letter I never referred ...

Little boxes

To the editor: Does the following resonate with you? It’s what one North Country young person wrote about her struggle. “All my life I tried to fit into a box, one that never really fit me, one that was simply too tight and uncomfortable ... I was trying so hard to put a label on ...