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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two guest commentaries titled “Wilmington deserves clarity,” Part 1 and 2, written by Wilmington town board member Tim Follos, were published on Aug. 24 and Sept. 1 in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. One of these pieces was also published in the Lake Placid News on Aug. 25. These ...