To the editor: Now that winter has made its debut in Lake Placid and the surrounding area, it’s an excellent time for all residents to take proactive steps to ensure their homes remain fully accessible and noticeable to emergency services. The ability of our first responders from our ...
In January 1992, I ran through a flock of pigeons along Grande Rue in Grenoble, France. “Allez-Allez!” called an elderly man feeding them. Go faster! — he clapped. “Training for the Olympics?” he asked. “Non, monsieur!” I laughed, shaking my head. The next day, Henri ...
Saranac Lake residents who have seen the latest plan to build an emergency services facility at 33 Petrova Ave. might wonder how this 59,000 square-foot project — including 120 interior rooms and a half kilometer of hallways for a combined 83-person fire, rescue and police force — ever got ...
To the editor: It is a literary curiosity that the Book that has shaped our world so profoundly is, in parts, so sparse. One might expect the biography of God-made-man to be a volume of encyclopedic detail. Instead, what we find in the Gospels is something more like a series of lightning ...
