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Opinion

Community Day thanks

Letters to the editor

To the editor: The Lake Placid Community Day Planning Committee would like to say thank you to the Lake Placid/North Elba community. This year’s Community Day was a great success and the committee is overwhelmed with gratitude to the many individuals and organizations that helped make our ...

Protecting from bothersome insects

Columns

With summer here, parents are constantly bugging me about what they can do to protect their children and themselves from those bothersome mosquitoes and other summer insects. Let me try to bite into this problem and provide a few solutions that, hopefully, will not sting. The best ways ...

A heady subject

Columns

According to the English poet Alexander Pope, “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” But I’ll add a corollary, namely that a lot of learning can be even more dangerous. I know that doesn’t sound right, but bear with me, willya? A perfect example was a barfly who haunted the ...

Trump and Juneteenth

Letters to the editor

To the editor: President Trump has recently issued proclamations commemorating Flag Day, the anniversary of Bunker Hill and Father’s Day, among others, but failed to mention Juneteenth this year. According to Clarence Page, writing in Tuesday’s Adirondack Daily Enterprise, perhaps it ...

Nothing but flowers

Columns

I want to tell you the story of how my perspectives on perfection, spirituality, the body, the mind and love have changed, and what I’ve learned from that journey. It’s sort of a mix of groundedness and impermanence and collective consciousness. It’s Buddhism, it’s quantum physics, and ...