Above, The Enterprise headline Dec. 31, 1999 — there was no Enterprise on Jan. 1, 2000. But boy, did they do a bang-up job on the issue at hand, all about celebrations in Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake, Lake Placid and Washington, D.C. It seems like yesterday to me and, hello, the new century ...

It is hard to believe that I have been doing “First with Kids” for almost 29 years — but how time flies when you are having fun and trying to make a difference. This week is my 1,500th column! To commemorate this milestone, rather than focus on one topic, I thought I would count ...

Joe Mercurio is soft-spoken. He will wait for you to finish speaking before taking his turn, pausing a few beats longer in case a dangling thought purls out of you. My introduction to Joe might look odd on the surface, but it couldn’t be more basic — it was as simple as one person reaching ...

I’ve always enjoyed studying logic as a game of sorts. Proof that I’ve never been serious about it is how I’ve lived my life. It’s like me and sea stories: From an early age, I’ve loved reading about ships on the bounding main ... but not enough to want to actually BE on one. If ...