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Opinion

Fun, easy ways to help manage and monitor invasives

Letters to the editor

To the editor: A big thank you to Benjamin Pierce McNulty for the recent guest commentary (“The Hemlock Woolly assassin,” Oct. 31, Enterprise) about hemlock woolly adelgid, or HWA. Benjamin did a great job of describing the threat this small insect poses to Adirondack forests. The good ...

Grateful for Saranac Lake’s Halloween spirit

Letters to the editor

To the editor: I want to say how grateful I was for Saranac Lakers yesterday. As I stood in the middle of Main Street for downtown’s after school trick-or-treat, I couldn’t stop smiling. There were little kids and big kids, parents and grandparents, general community members, and ...

You name it …

Columns

There’s a hidden treasure in the Adirondack Park. You don’t need a treasure map and it’s not marked with a great big “X.” Instead, it’s marked with a great big “S.” Followed by a “t.” Then an “e.” Then “w, a, r, t, apostrophe, s.” Put them all together and what do ...

Safer crossings for the new rail trail

Letters to the editor

To the editor: I am very glad that the rail trail is almost completed. It looks great and I am really looking forward to biking to Saranac Lake and Lake Placid from my home in Ray Brook. At the Saranac Lake end, the rail trail crosses state Route 86 by the Oseetah trailhead parking. ...

When did education become a dirty word?

Letters to the editor

To the editor: I suppose I’m a little more sensitive to this anti-education trend because I’m a former teacher. But my parents (born in 1904 and 1914) revered education, even though they didn’t go to college. My uncles returning from WWII were grateful for the GI Bill. I was able to ...