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Guest Commentary

Sunday is Transgender Day of Remembrance

Transgender Day of Remembrance occurs annually on Nov. 20. It is a day to memorialize people killed as the result of transphobia, (hatred or fear of transgender and gender non-conforming/non-binary people). We also remember those who died as a result of suicide. This day serves to bring ...

For town of Wilmington, two years is too long for short-term rental reform

Short-term vacation rentals should play by the same rules as everyone else. When a person, family, business partnership, or corporation wants to open a hotel, motel, or traditional B&B in Wilmington, they need to obtain a special use permit from our planning board. Obtaining a special ...

Time to get real about impact of STRs on Wilmington economy

I am writing in response to guest commentaries by Linda Shuster and Bill Wonderlin published on Oct. 5 in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, and Oct. 6 in the Lake Placid News (“The economic benefits of STRs, revisited”), in which they have provided a response to my earlier analysis ...

Wilmington deserves respect

In various ways — including by speaking up at town board meetings, by signing letters to the editor, and by signing petitions — at this point more than 70 Wilmington residents have called for improved short-term rental (STR) regulations in our town. This number merely represents a fraction ...

Adirondack Health plans ER closure in Lake Placid

Six months ago, spirits at Adirondack Health were running high. We seemed to be on the right side of the COVID-19 pandemic, with things looking up for the first time in a long time. But then, with the onset of inflation, doing business began to get very expensive, very quickly. Staffing ...

The economic benefits of short-term rentals revisited in Wilmington

We are responding to guest commentaries by Aseem Mathur on Sept. 9 in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and Sept. 22 in the Lake Placid News in which he argued that short-term rentals (STRs) are critical for Wilmington’s economy and that any attempt to regulate them would be detrimental to ...