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Opinion

How to avoid holiday hazards

Columns

Deck the halls with boughs of holly Falalalalalalalala If you eat this plant, it won’t be jolly Falalalalalalalala - Yes, it’s holiday season once again, and what better time to remind everyone of some simple things you can do to keep you and your children safe and ...

Necessary investments in a not-so-ideal world

Editorials

State Sen. Dan Stec, R-Queensbury, joined 14 of his Republican colleagues last week in calling for Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul to either lift the state’s electric school bus mandate or to fully fund the conversion process. Stec and his colleagues are correct in many of their criticisms of ...

No laughing matter

Columns

Child prodigies is a redundancy, since what makes them prodigies in the first place is their brilliance manifests in early childhood. One of the best known is Picasso, whose first word was “pencil” and whose first painting was at 9. Another was Mozart, who could play songs on the ...

Honoring a heroic act

Editorials

In the North Country, heroes are all around us. A local UPS driver, Corey Howe, was presented with the Liberty Mutual Life Saver Award last week at a UPS warehouse in Plattsburgh. For those who may not remember, Howe, 49 — whose delivery route extends from Plattsburgh to Elizabethtown ...

Ideal place for many houseplants: The bathroom

Columns

The term bathroom decor often conjures thoughts of decorative shelving, a framed print or perhaps a colorful shower curtain. But what about houseplants? Most houseplants are tender tropical plants that thrive best in the warm, humid conditions of their native climate, often a rainforest or ...