In the Adirondacks, a common expression is, “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.” The corollary is, “If you like the weather, wait a minute.” What it means is that whatever the weather, we’ll deal with it as best we can as we pursue our activity. That way of life was ...
“The attempt to control fire ants has been so expensive, time-consuming and ineffective that biologist E. O. Wilson has called it ‘the Vietnam of entomology.’” — Amy Stewart, “Wicked Bugs” I spent Easter in Boston, visiting my grandchildren (and their parents). It was ...
This is such a wonderful time of year to stop by the Lake Placid Public Library. The weather is lovely, parking is a breeze, and the building is bursting with incredible books, magazines, games and more. Get ready for an incredible summer. Our team has planned a fantastic lineup of programs ...
During my 45 years of punditry for the Virginia Gazette, and before that writing for decades for the largest Hungarian-language newspaper in the United States as well as for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise in Saranac Lake and the Lake Placid News, I was never told what I can or can’t write ...
Approximately 100 people gathered in front of the Essex County courthouse in Elizabethtown on Palm Sunday, April 13, to protest the way immigrants, refugees and others are being treated in our country by the current administration in the White House, and by many members of the general public. ...
Back in Michigan the other day, in my old home town in Metro Detro (Metropolitan Detroit), my sister and younger brother decided to Facetime me. When I heard the ringtone peculiar to Facetime calls and saw my cellphone light up — was it actually jumping around on the counter, or was that ...