It has now been more than two years since I became mayor of Lake Placid. It is amazing what has been accomplished in this short period of time. There was a major renovation to our main street, improvements to the electric substation by the fire house and upgrades to our water plant. More ...
June is LGBTQI-plus Pride Month, a time when LGBTQI-plus community members, family, friends and advocates acknowledge and celebrate the gift of diversity that is unique to each of us. Many municipalities host pride parades and events where LGBTQI-plus community members outwardly profess ...
At December’s monthly Wilmington town board meeting, Deputy Supervisor Darin Forbes provided prepared remarks in which he stated, “The conception [sic] out there is we aren’t listening to people, so I really wanted to take some time for myself, plug some data into AirDNA, look at some of ...
No one should be expected to passively absorb, month after month, ever-lower blows. For nearly a year, a group of people have used a variety of tactics to malign an elected official in Wilmington. Some might say this is the cost of public life, but members of this group have now ventured ...
Big Tech has put local journalism on life support and it’s undermining our ability to govern ourselves. In the past two decades, Americans have watched their local papers shutter their doors or reduce their footprint in their communities as Google and Facebook have become dominant forces ...
Adopted in the fall of 2021, Wilmington’s local law regulating short-term vacation rentals is derived from a law that North Elba’s leaders wrote in 2019 and passed in early 2020. This is publicly acknowledged and is demonstrated by the fact that the two towns’ laws are extremely similar. ...