To the editor: Derek Doty, a Democrat, has been a key member of the North Elba Town Council for 16 years. In that time he has led efforts to improve our town’s infrastructure while cutting costs and creating new revenue streams. He is a savvy manager and a hard worker who knows how to get ...
To the editor: On behalf of the Educational Opportunity Fund of the LPCSD, more commonly known as the Ed Op Fund, I wish to extend our thanks to the Planning Committee of Lake Placid Community Day and its sponsors. We are a grassroots, not-for-profit organization that aims to improve the ...
To the editor: Success! The Lake Placid Community Day held on Sunday, Sept. 12 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the North Elba Show Grounds was a complete revelation for me. New at the Lake Placid Sinfonietta this year, I did not know what to expect. Would people come? What would happen? Well, the ...
The Champlain Valley was and has remained a vital thoroughfare for people seeking a better life. Leading up to the Civil War, it was a principal route for runaway slaves seeking freedom in Canada. Recently, until COVID-19 slammed shut the U.S.-Canada border, the valley was a major route ...
By MARTHA ALLEN As we all know, in fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Ever since, we have been forbidden to wear white shoes or linen clothing or straw hats after the second Monday in October, simply because Christopher Columbus stepped ashore in the Bahamas on ...
Polio epidemic - One Essex County school has not reopened this fall and two others have closed due to an outbreak of poliomyelitis. John Carr of Elizabethtown, chairman of the Essex County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, said there are at least 30 cases of ...