To the editor: This letter is long overdue. This past March I had the opportunity to tour the Town of Peru Highway Department facilities and learn about their use of brine on the roads to combat ice. The tour was arranged by Marque Moffett from the Ausable Freshwater Center. Rock salt ...
To the editor: The lasagna dinner benefit in memory of the Willette Brothers from Bloomingdale was a huge success. $8,000 was raised and will go to the Renal Dialysis Center at Adirondack Health. The support from the surrounding communities was amazing. A huge thanks to Frankie & the ...
To the editor: The Franklin County Youth Bureau is currently accepting applications for funding youth programs for the program year October 2025 through September 2026. Programs must have a Board of Directors, checking account and a Federal Employer ID number to be considered for ...
It seems that many times I take “things” for granted that have existed longer than I have. One of those “things” is the beautiful highway that brings us to the top of beautiful Whiteface Mountain. Imagine for a minute, in 1929, the construction of an eight-mile, 20-foot wide highway ...
With fall sports season approaching, parents have been tackling me with lots of questions about whether their young athlete could injure themselves from too much practicing their desired sport, resulting in what we call an overuse injury. - What is an overuse injury? - An overuse ...
Last week, I survived a brief — but not brief enough — encounter with The Number One Gothamite: Benjamin Franklin Fairbanks XIV. Though he claims he’s related to the original Ben Franklin of kite-flying and bifocal-inventing fame, he’s as directly related to Old Ben as I am to Jesus. ...