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Opinion

Communication and compromise

Letters to the editor

To the editor: Is anyone else tired of us talking at each other rather than with each other? This is what one North Country young person wrote about that issue: “A healthy, diverse community will have an important challenge: to find balance between quite varied viewpoints in a way ...

What went right

Letters to the editor

To the editor: Today the Earth turned on its axis, and in many places the sun shone. There were places that needed rain and got it. Food was harvested and brought to markets and stores. Birds in the northern hemisphere sang for spring. A pair of cardinals did a mating dance on the back deck. ...

A different kind of guidebook

Columns

The Adirondacks have generated guidebooks galore. The newest does not, for the most part, give trail information, describe summit views or tell how to find a trailhead. What it does do, in considerable and exquisite detail, is present aspects of the histories of nearly 30 specific locations, ...

Straw Poll, April 1-8

Editorials

This week’s Straw Poll: Did you view the April 8 total solar eclipse? --- This poll is not scientific, and its results represent only the opinions of Internet users who have chosen to participate.

The frontline workers who give their all

Guest Commentary

In January 2016, I received a call from my niece Kristy that my mother, Dolores Catherine Newman, was not doing well. My then-86-year-old mom had lived independently for several years in Hermet, California. Kristy was the only remaining relative residing in southern California and visited her ...