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 ...

We disapprove of the methods used to fill a briefly vacant Wilmington Town Council seat. After a series of maneuvers that show a lack of respect for Wilmington’s voters and for the democratic process itself, a person was appointed to the seat in a hurried and contrived way. The speed ...

The iconic monarch butterfly was added to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species in July. The List, known as the IUCN Red List, founded in 1964, is the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological ...

At a recent special Wilmington town board meeting there was much talk about working together and repairing the tension and division that have surfaced in town. If the town board is serious about this desire, we can take a step toward the many Wilmington voters who believe the town needs an ...

A letter to the editor was published in the Lake Placid News on July 1 titled “Wilmington must modernize short-term rental policies now” (the same letter in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise on July 2 was titled “Wilmington deserves better”), which indicated that STRs (short-term rentals) ...

On July 4, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed the federal Freedom of Information Act into law. According to Bill Moyers, Johnson’s press secretary, “LBJ had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to the signing ceremony. He hated the very idea of open government, hated the thought of ...