(Editor’s note: This is Martha Allen’s Dec. 19 column for the Lake Placid News.) I know you have been so busy this past week you haven’t had a chance to glance up from your myriad holiday tasks, but here’s what our 2025 holiday season economy boils down to this year: dolls and ...

In a couple of weeks, Derek Doty, North Elba’s first Democratic town supervisor, will step down, leaving a board he has well served since 2003, leading it as supervisor for the last four years. Doty has served on several other boards — the Franklin Town Board, the Saranac Lake Central ...

I hardly need to remind you of our current position in the calendar year. I’m not even going to mention Christmas. But as the present year comes to an end, we are trying — whether consciously or unconsciously—to decide what we want to bring with us into the new year. It’s like the ...

Silicon Valley is not the only place where a good idea has changed people’s lives and, in doing so, created job and income opportunities for others. The challenge and opportunity is, as Steve Jobs said to us, “Think different.” I think of my grandmother, then Climena Preston Alford, who ...

With the signing of a contract on Tuesday, Nov. 18, Keene Central School officially has a new superintendent, Mark Bennett, who will take up his duties in January. Bennett succeeds Dan Mayberry, who, after 13 years of leading the school, accepted a new position as Guilderland’s ...

“A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and 20 years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish —but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.” — Vladimir Nabokov, “Laughter in the ...