To the editor: The Lake Placid Community Day organizing committee would like to remind everyone that the sixth annual Lake Placid Community Day is this Sunday, June 2, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the North Elba Show Grounds. All those who live, work or volunteer in the community are encouraged to ...

To the editor: The deepest heart-felt gratitude for ALL who make the North Country Honor Flights possible. It keeps the flame of patriotic pride alive, lest we forget. Vivian Losser Lake Placid

To the editor: “I wish everyone could come together to fight the climate crisis instead of leaving it to my generation to speak up.” As an adult I truly feel the frustration of this quote from a young person in our North Country community. For a second year in a row the Saranac Lake ...

To the editor: Do you recall someone raving about their school lunches? I sure don’t. I remember when ketchup was called a vegetable. In a recent essay, a student reminded us why school lunch matters. “School lunch may be the only meal some of those children have everyday.” [sic] ...

To the editor: As I sit here thinking about Memorial Day, I am thinking about its origin, and about those who had their lives cut short, and about their grieving families, and about what they may have died for. Surely part of what they died for was the safety of their loved ones, for our ...

To the editor: “I am only 13 years old now, but why should that stop me from trying to create change?” That line caught my breath. Young people in the north country can inspire us to do better. They can inspire us to engage. “Most people want a government that works so smoothly that ...