To the editor: Every 45 seconds, an LGBTQ young person attempts suicide Last year 41% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered ending their lives — including nearly half of all transgender and nonbinary youth. Despite this devastating reality, the Trump administration has announced that ...
To the editor: I encountered a cynic recently. He sneeringly pooh-poohed John Monroe’s recent 36-hour vigil for the Constitution on the corner of Main and River Streets (reported in the June 3 edition of the Enterprise). One person standing in protest can’t make a difference, the ...
To the editor: We moved to this amazing community when our oldest son — and at the time, only son — Alex was just eight months old. Today, he is 18 and about to graduate from Saranac Lake High School. We could not be prouder of the young man he has become and all the hard work he’s ...
To the editor: The Lake Placid Community Day Planning Committee would like to say thank you to the Lake Placid/North Elba community. This year’s Community Day was a great success and the committee is overwhelmed with gratitude to the many individuals and organizations that helped make our ...
With summer here, parents are constantly bugging me about what they can do to protect their children and themselves from those bothersome mosquitoes and other summer insects. Let me try to bite into this problem and provide a few solutions that, hopefully, will not sting. The best ways ...
According to the English poet Alexander Pope, “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” But I’ll add a corollary, namely that a lot of learning can be even more dangerous. I know that doesn’t sound right, but bear with me, willya? A perfect example was a barfly who haunted the ...