One hundred and ten years ago a group of foresighted women came together in a small village to form an association dedicated to improving the aesthetics of their town. Early on they realized that an important component of that mission entailed the outright purchase of land so that it ...

A recent Guest Commentary from David Lynch entitled “Stop the Adirondack Pregnancy Center” argues what the Adirondack Pregnancy Center is going to do before it even opens. The village has welcomed and embraced faith-based organizations like Samaritan House and Grace Pantry that serve our ...

The renowned Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl (1905-1997) argued that freedom is not the “last word” in values and the ordering of human societies. Frankl stated freedom is only half the truth; the other half is responsibility. The just society will balance ...

I want to commend the Saranac Lake village board for tabling the allocation of $11,000 to Lexipol, a corporation that promises to provide law enforcement departments “with a ‘policy that is always up to date’ containing ‘legally defensible content’ that will ‘protect your agency ...

Over three weeks ago on a Monday morning, I brought my 18-year-old grandson in to the Adirondack Medical Center Saranac Lake emergency room. He had a fever of 102.4, sweats, dizziness, shortness of breath and weakness. His condition worsened by the hour, and I was not sure what was happening ...

There is something magical about growing your own food. Knowing where your food comes from, watching daily progress as vegetables draw their nourishment from the soil and the rain, paying attention to the flowers as they turn to the fruit of the plant, the leaves spread their wings, lettuce ...