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Opinion

Halloween safety tips

Columns

It seems like only last year that I was teaching you a few safety tricks so that Halloween could be a treat for you and your children. Well, here we are a year later, and many of you are asking me for a few more hints so that Halloween is not a safety nightmare for anyone. - If you are a ...

Ostrich thinking among Republicans

Guest Commentary

The Republicans are not sincere when they address the issue of immigration. This is easy to tell because they want to perform a wholesale deportment of all our current immigrants even though many of those fall into the category of “good propaganda for the Right.” The Right has ...

Where should loyalty lie?

Letters to the editor

To the editor: We are all aware of the contentious political atmosphere in which we Americans find ourselves, amplified as the presidential election approaches. Many people are stuck in their corners, steeped in messaging from their favorite biased news source, both left and right. Our ...

SLHS 2024 Distinguished Alumni Dinner set for Nov. 9

Letters to the editor

To the editor: The Saranac Lake Central School’s Distinguished Alumni Committee has announced award recipients and dinner with silent auction to benefit the Community Schools. The Saranac Lake Distinguished Alumni Association announced that this year’s awards will go to Suzanne ...

Making a splash

Columns

Last week, when Bunk Griffin snugged into his stool in The Great Downhill Grill in the Sky, he took with him a vast number of stories never recorded or even heard. Luckily for us, and me in particular, he left another bunch of them behind. Some necessary background: Bunk was seven years ...

On saving America

Guest Commentary

During the last Art Walk a few weeks ago I noticed the big posters on the Republican party headquarters exhorting me to “Save America.” That encounter raised the obvious question: Save it from what? The Republican answer, as I understand it, is from government overreach and the loss of our ...