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Opinion

Connors wrote book of local interest

Letters to the editor

To the editor: The obituary for Bernard Connors should also have mentioned his book “Tailspin,” which detailed the life of Air Force Major Anthony Call. Major Call went AWOL from the Air Force because of his gambling debts and ended up in Lake Placid, where he raided houses and stole ...

Exposure to Adirondack photography

Columns

In an era during which everyone with a cellphone lays claim to being a photographer, there’s still immense pleasure in enjoying the art and skill of those who are true professionals. Regular readers of my work know I place great store in vintage work by the likes of Seneca Ray Stoddard, ...

Contested sites and the pharaonic complex

Guest Commentary

In 1966, the Paul Smith’s Electric Company conceded that it could not supply its service area with enough electricity and sold out to the Niagara Mohawk Corporation, the second largest investor-owned utility in New York state. To get even more complete control over this area, Niagara Mohawk ...

Hotel project would be good for Tupper Lake

Letters to the editor

To the editor: This letter is directed to the community of Tupper Lake and the village of Tupper Lake mayor and board of trustees. How much grant funding has been given to the project at the former Oval Wood Dish Corporation site on Demars Boulevard? Where does this project stand? I ...

Thank you veterans

Letters to the editor

To the editor: Veterans Day is Nov. 11, a time to pay tribute to all veterans, living or deceased, for their service. While Veterans Day honors veterans, it also honors all those who paid in life and blood. Whose moms never saw them again, whose dads wept in private, siblings who lost a ...