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Opinion

Is the village being bamboozled?

Guest Commentary

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 ...

Beautiful brevity of the Bible

Letters to the editor

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 ...

Ancestors, soldiers and heel strings

Columns

Robin Michel Caudell artfully interlaces her memories of lived experiences and of epigenetic ones in “Black Heel Strings: A Choptank Memoir.” Throughout, the author writes about her life in poetic language that catches the reader’s attention. Well-known locally as a Plattsburgh ...

Gold hit $4,300/ounce. How can that affect us?

Guest Commentary

Twenty-five years ago, gold was $275 an ounce. Recently, it hit $4300 an ounce. Each dollar (to buy gold) is worth less than 1/15th of what it was in the year 2000. Our exports will thus be cheaper. But we don’t manufacture much anymore (military and some other things aside). Like Venezuela, ...

Go the extra mile to support those in need

Letters to the editor

To the editor: Now more than ever, people experiencing food insecurity need our help. And as communities across the North Country step up to support food banks and pantries, The Heart Network would like to share some tips for ensuring that donations to these amazing organizations can have ...