Straw Poll, Feb. 3-10
Editorials
This week's straw poll: Do you prefer living in the Adirondacks year-round or seasonally? - This poll is not scientific, and its results represent only the opinions of internet users who have chosen to participate.
Opinion
Fair and equitable property tax assessment is the law
Guest Commentary
Town government has a few functions that are mandatory and required by State Law. In fact, a line-by-line review of all the services a “town” provides would yield very few mandatory functions, especially when villages exist within the same boundaries. There is, however, one absolute, sole ...
Winter Carnival memories of Bloomingdale Boy Scout Troop 19
Letters to the editor
To the editor: The 1970 Winter Carnival, held over the weekend of Feb. 13-15, was indeed a memorable Carnival for 13 scouts and their leader. During the two weeks preceding Carnival, the village of Saranac Lake’s public works department trucked in a mountain of snow at Riverside Park ...
5W Wednesdays
Columns
Memoir memories
Columns
Memoirs are all the rage nowadays. Seems everybody is writing one (which is both the good and bad features of self-publishing). But they’ve been around a long time, although for most of their existence they’ve been called autobiographies. But they’re not identical. Broadly speaking, an ...
The Experiment and the Confession
Guest Commentary
Life is a social experiment. We are born awake, having never slept, and one day we will fall asleep never to wake again. Every day in between is our opportunity to live, love, learn and leave our mark. Every day is a dress rehearsal for a lifetime. A life lived in discover mode — with ...