We are having a cold, wet week, with the daytime temperature predicted to finally drag itself up to a high of 63 degrees on Memorial Day Monday. The forecast does not include frost, even at night, but it comes dangerously close for all of those Mother’s Day hanging baskets and planters. In ...

My grandson, Jack, at 11 years old, has become fascinated with Dubai. When not preoccupied with the internet or studying cars — Jack has been enthralled with motorized vehicles since infancy — he may be found poring over a huge, heavy book filled with glossy color photographs of ...

Shouts of “No Quarter!” in the wee hours of May 10 scared the British soldiers and their wives 250 years ago as the Green Mountain Boys scaled the walls and burst into the courtyard of Fort Ticonderoga; shouts at that time meant all would be killed. “It was pretty terrifying for the ...

Sovereignty was not the only winner of the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. The other winner was Lake Placid Central School teachers and their students, who will benefit from the money raised for the Educational Opportunities Fund. As of press time, approximately $20,000 has ...

“Deep inside the skull of every one of us there is something like a brain of a crocodile.” So wrote Carl Sagan in his best-selling book “Cosmos,” published in 1980. I always found the notion that human beings possess a rudimentary reptilian brain to be very believable. It explains ...

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 ...