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. ...

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 ...

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 ...