News from June 1941 looks much like today’s news. According to an Enterprise article from Sept. 9 about Saranac Lake’s infrastructure project, the village board plans to purchase a new heavy rescue truck for the fire department for $900,000 by 2027. Prices have gone up a little in the ...
Perhaps because National Grandparents Day was Sept. 7, grandparents have begun to ask me for advice about how to tell their own children how to parent — which is interesting because parents frequently ask me how they should deal with grandparents who want to offer advice on every facet of ...
The State should purchase Whitney Park, a 36,000-acre area adjacent to the existing Whitney Wilderness area. It has been on the State’s Open Conservation Plan for purchase for decades. Most of the acreage is pristine forest lands and waters. As noted by the APA in 1996: “[the area has] ...
To the editor: At John F, Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings, he promised to “maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes”. In June, he fired all 17 members of the committee, asserting without evidence ...
An old boxing adage, maybe the oldest, is “They never come back.” It means when pugs retire, it’s for a good reason, namely, they’re no longer at the top of their game. In fact, au contraire. And that’s why almost every boxer who came out of retirement, hoping he still had his ...
(Editor’s note: This editorial was originally published in the Enterprise on Sept. 11, 2001. Then-Features Editor Bruce Young wrote it on deadline that morning, with input from other staff members, as news of the attacks unfolded and as other staff members scrambled to get it into the paper. ...