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Opinion

Community’s voices needed for fight to save public media

Guest Commentary

I strongly urge Congress to reject destructive proposals to rescind, cut or eliminate public media funding. Doing so would strip millions of Americans — especially in rural regions — of critical services provided by local public television, from lifesaving emergency communications to proven ...

ON THE SCENE: Spring cleaning along the AuSable River

Columns

In the Adirondacks, a common expression is, “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.” The corollary is, “If you like the weather, wait a minute.” What it means is that whatever the weather, we’ll deal with it as best we can as we pursue our activity. That way of life was ...

MARTHA SEZ: ‘Don’t let this weather fool you.’

Columns

“The attempt to control fire ants has been so expensive, time-consuming and ineffective that biologist E. O. Wilson has called it ‘the Vietnam of entomology.’” — Amy Stewart, “Wicked Bugs” I spent Easter in Boston, visiting my grandchildren (and their parents). It was ...

WORLD FOCUS: Safeguarding press freedom

Columns

During my 45 years of punditry for the Virginia Gazette, and before that writing for decades for the largest Hungarian-language newspaper in the United States as well as for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise in Saranac Lake and the Lake Placid News, I was never told what I can or can’t write ...

Time to pick the Best of the Mountains winners

Editorials

It’s time once again to pick the winners for the annual Best of the Mountains competition, and now it’s up to you. Voting starts on Saturday, April 26 and ends on Sunday, May 4. Inside this week’s Lake Placid News is a four-page publication announcing the nominees. The categories ...