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Guest Commentary

Honoring my grandmother

I will always remember Dec. 6, 2024, the day I buried my grandmother. As I helped shovel the dirt into the ground, I thought about how her passion for hiking shaped my life. After a decade of dragging my dad and uncle, her sons, up all the High Peaks of the Adirondacks, my grandmother became ...

Brine is a good winter road solution

Keeping roads safe for winter driving is a constant factor around the North Country every year, and there are opportunities to improve winter road maintenance practices used in this region. Two columns by Enterprise contributor Dave Werner, written in November, focused on snow and ice control. ...

Had enough yet?

If you wonder why the rest of the world is reacting with revulsion to our recent news, consider: ¯ According to reliable sources, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of two men holding on to their burning boat, which is either a war crime or murder or both. ¯ They were ...

Bring the Winter Olympics to NYC and Lake Placid

New York has always been a place where the world comes together to create, to compete and to dream. New York City is the global capital of culture and possibility. Five hours north, in the heart of the Adirondacks, lies Lake Placid, surrounded by peaks alive with Olympic history. One is vast ...

The $35M public safety project is needed

Dear neighbors, I’m genuinely excited about the possibility of a new public safety complex here in Saranac Lake. Projects like this touch all of us, and the conversations — whether on Facebook or in the pages of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise — help us sort out what’s real, what’s ...

Cult of power, gospel of hate

Imagine entering a church and immediately seeing a life-size crucifix on the main altar — Christ hanging upside down and facing backwards. Yet this rendition of Christianity’s most important symbol is an apt description of White Nationalist MAGA Christianity (WNMC): upside down and ...