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Opinion

Arctic sea ice is returning to normal

Letters to the editor

To the editor: Regarding my Jan. 11 guest commentary (“Ignoring the bias in climate change science”), Mr. Richard Brandt claims “disinformation,” (“Response to Jed Dukett’s commentary on climate bias,” Jan. 17). He takes issue with my reporting that the influence of human ...

Group therapy

Columns

Winter Carnival is good group therapy. I thought about this last week as I drove out to Bloomingdale to work on our parade float. I thought about how Carnival brings people together across the many things that divide us. You might go down to Lake Flower to cut and stack ice with friends ...

Dance like everyone’s watching

Aimless Insights, by Amy Cheney-Seymour

Spin, clap! Roll hands low, roll hands high! Spin, clap! Roll hands low, roll hands high! We pass Garden Street and the Adults Center, and swerve a few steaming piles of dung from the bleating protests of four goats being reluctantly tugged by the local 4-H club. Volunteer firefighters, ...

Hiking and camping over 100 years ago

Columns

Winter can be a good time to sit by the fire and read someone’s memories of a long ago trek through the Adirondacks. By chance I found a copy of “Friendly Adirondack Peaks,” by Robert Wickham, published in 1924. Why not find out what such an undertaking would have been like exactly a ...