Last January, I penned a column on an experience I had at SUNY Cortland with the woman of my dreams (https://tinyurl.com/3wa3cntn). Unfortunately that’s all it was — a dream. Imagine my surprise when the story got picked up by the SUNY Cortland Alumni Association and was featured in ...

Various friends of mine are avid “cold plungers.” I like to call it “swimming in the Adirondacks.” I’ve attended one such gathering, which took place on the icy bank of a river. My friend researched the perfect place. We needed some open water without a current, a bit of beach to ...

“The gift of the sugar maple trees is from a benevolent Providence.” — Benjamin Rush, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. What’s the sweetest part of an Adirondack spring? Maple syrup! It’s mud season. Frosty nights and sunny, warm days cause the sap to flow. It’s time ...

Last week’s column was about speed cameras in school speed zones in the Albany area and speed cameras in work zones throughout New York state. The column described the thousands of drivers caught on the various speed cameras and fined for the violation. It also promoted the use of speed ...

Wondering how I would lead into a story of a mistake I made in my column of Saturday, March 8 about Legs Diamond, Bert LaFountain, et al, a letter arrives from my friend Mark Wilson, solving that problem. The mistake was my recalling a much-told story that Gabriels speakeasy owner Bert ...

Parents have been asking me some eye-opening questions about whether or not their child might be getting pinkeye. Well, let me see what I can tell you about this problem. Pinkeye gets its name because it describes the pink or reddish appearance of what is normally the white part of the ...