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Martha Sez: Mother Nature still full of tricks in new creatures

May Day! Even though so many of us have experienced snow recently, we are also experiencing daffodils. And while, yes, some of us have already experienced the odd tick or mosquito, for the most part we are still pretty much bug free. Much as I love nature — and I do! Especially this time ...

Pastor reflects on journey with congregation

The beloved pastor of the Keene Valley Congregational Church, the Rev. John Sampson, will lead his last worship service in the hamlet on Sunday morning. Sampson decided to conclude his service so he could be closer to his family in New Jersey and grow as a pastor. Sampson has accepted an ...

ON THE SCENE: Spring cleaning along the AuSable River

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 ...

MARTHA SEZ: ‘Don’t let this weather fool you.’

“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 ...

WORLD FOCUS: Safeguarding press freedom

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 ...