This time each year something happens here with the grinding regularity of stores starting to play X-mas music the day after Halloween. And like the stores and their premature musical Ho Ho Ho, our version annoys me to no end as well. So what is it? It’s people here wingeing about — ...
“There’s a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen It was winter and I was mad. “You can’t play with us,” my brother said, tossing rubber pucks on our backyard rink. I waved my stick around and skated backwards. I pointed to my Canadians jersey as ...
To the Editor: As our village board election is set for March 18, I am giving careful thought to whom I want to be making decisions that will enhance the quality of life for our village workers and residents alike. To bear the authority of government, whether national, state or local, ...
To the editor: My family has lived in Saranac Lake for five generations. I have chosen to work and maintain a business here for the past 30-plus years. My commitment to the village and my connections run deep, so it saddens me to see the self-imposed divisions of the village board. There ...
To the editor: Maybe the most important trait that our representatives in government should have is that when their constituents talk, they shut up and listen. They humbly observe the hardships in their community and try their best to help, all the while aware that they are only human with ...