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Opinion

OUR ANIMALS, OURSELVES: Music is good

Columns

I attended an awesomely inspiring piano concert recently by Ben Cosgrove at the Essex Quarry. As incredible music goes it had the reach of a powerful spirit that touches ones soul and body. The energy running through me was altered in remarkable ways when I listened to that music as it ...

HISTORY IS COOL: 90 years ago

Columns

Steamboat pilot - First to own and operate a steamboat on Lake Placid, Theodore White, 81, was buried at Lewis on Oct. 27. He died on the previous Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Leon Cutting, in Elizabethtown. The “Lake Lily,” an old wood burner, was built in the 1880s ...

WORLD FOCUS: Voting with their feet

Columns

It was in Lake Placid that during my 60 years of residency I experienced the blessings of American democracy. My hope is that the 2024 U. S. presidential elections would reaffirm this tradition. On Nov. 5, millions of United States citizens will caste their vole in an U.S. presidential ...

Voting and peace

Editorials

We’ve heard this refrain time and time again: “Every vote counts.” It may sound silly or naive, but we still believe it’s true. With the presidential election, even though we are a blue state, that doesn’t mean Democrats are an automatic shoe-in for winning the state, although it ...

Service recognition

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: You know all those banners hanging from light poles, banners with the faces of hometown people, mostly young, who have served in the military? According to Donald Trump, they are “suckers and losers.” Think about that as you drive through your town and see those ...