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Guest Commentary

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 ...

STRs contribute to Wilmington’s economy

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 ...

Wilmington politics: Transparent as mud

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 ...

Protecting monarchs in the Park

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 ...