Recreational use in the Adirondack Forest Preserve has been increasing at a noticeable rate for the last several years. Most notably, hiker traffic has exploded in the High Peaks Wilderness and gone beyond the current carrying capacity of many trails and parking areas. This explosion in hiker ...
Farmers markets are marketplaces where people gather to buy and trade goods and services, exchange news and share stories with one another. They can be traced back 5,000 years to Egyptian villages and towns along the Nile. They have deep roots in American history, too, enduring as a part of ...
To the editor: The Saranac Lake 5th Quarter Club held its annual golf tournament to benefit the Saranac Lake football program. First-place team: Pat McHugh, Adam Reynolds, Cody Ecret and Curt Hayes. The Saranac Lake 5th Quarter Club would like to thank the following for their continued ...
To the editor: Enough is enough. President Trump’s latest and blatantly racist rant against four citizens of the United States House of Representatives is at best reprehensible and beyond what any American should tolerate from a neighbor, friend, family member, elected official and ...
This week’s Web Poll: Should the town and village of Tupper Lake consolidate in any way? Yes, dissolve the village ¯ Yes, make the village coterminous with the town ¯ Yes, share more services ¯ No ¯ Undecided This poll is not scientific, and its results represent only the opinions ...
To the editor: A week or so ago I wrote my reaction to a post that depicted Democrats as anti-police, anti-flag, anti-American. This upset me because it depicts, in the minds of those who agree with that viewpoint, horrible individuals who uphold lawlessness. NOT TRUE! Democrats want our ...
WASHINGTON — With a disgust commensurate with the fact, Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, says that during 40% of his 10 Senate years the government has been run on “continuing resolutions.” Congress passes these in order to spare itself the torture of performing its primary ...
A man named Josef Buzhminski told this story at the trial of Adolf Eichmann. It happened on July 27, 1942, at the fence of the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl, Poland. Buzhminski was watching from hiding as an SS man named Kidash seized a Jewish woman and her 18-month-old son. “She held the baby ...
If you’re over 60 and reading this article you most likely rode your bicycle all over town when you were a kid. Other than walking, it was your only way to get around — parents didn’t drive their children everywhere back then. However, times have changed, and we need to get back to when ...
The Vindy announced its death about a week before Jeffrey Epstein was arrested. Though the timing was only a coincidence, the juxtaposition speaks volumes about the state of American journalism. Epstein, as you likely know, is the billionaire money manager who was taken into custody ...
The American middle class just got a lot richer. Joe Biden, who invariably and tiresomely refers to himself as “Middle-Class Joe,” made $15 million the first two years after the end of the Obama administration. This hardly qualifies as a rounding error in the portfolio of any ...
The argument, “Don’t erase history” doesn’t work in this case, because there’s a difference between history and honors. Melville Dewey cannot help but figure heavily into the recorded history of the American Library Association, which he helped found in 1876 and then served as ...
Lake Placid is loaded with scenic destinations, but not all of them have to take all day to reach. These select destinations are perfect for those not wishing to do much hiking at all. Or maybe it’s a hot, humid day and the air condition of the car has its charm. The following ...
(SLPD Blotter-July 1939) --- 3:15 a. m., 7-3-39 — “Fire alarm rang 25 (B’way & Prospect Ave.). Investigated by Higgins and Brown. Fire at 14 McComb St. Started on back porch, second floor, Johnny Martin’s apartment. Johnny claims that he and his mother, Virginia Martin went ...
To the editor: We often overlook the important role that businesses and companies play in influencing change in our communities. The North Country Healthy Heart Network wishes to recognize two companies — Kinney Drugs and CVS — for taking the bold step to ban the sale of e-cigarettes ...
To the editor: A big thank-you to whoever left a found pair of glasses near the Jackrabbit Trail by state Route 86. They had been lost since last winter! Lila Lobdell Saranac Lake
The women of the U.S. national soccer team are famous for being extraordinary athletes, repeat world champions — and plaintiffs. The team’s lawsuit alleging pay discrimination against the U.S. Soccer Federation has done much to define its identity. A nearly perfect run through the World ...
Anyone who has a few hours to kill should really take the time to see how much the state Assembly got done on the final two days of its 2019 legislative session. The video is available on the Assembly’s website. Plan for more than 30 hours of viewing time, though, for just those two days ...
This week when Mad Magazine announced it had stopped publishing, I wasn’t surprised. It was bound to happen in a society like ours — post-literate, if not il-literate. So while I wasn’t surprised, I was sad. And why wouldn’t I be, since Mad was one of the major influences of my ...
What odds would you give for a brick-and-mortar music store to survive for more than a year in a city today? How about in an isolated Adirondack town of 5,000 people? Saranac Lake’s Mark Coleman opened his music shop in 1989. Saranac Lake is more than just another town; it is a ...