Wilmington property owners were shocked by their assessments this spring. The average assessment increased by 47%. Unfortunately, this probably is not the end of this trend. While assessments are Wilmington’s hot-topic of the year, short-term vacation rentals are the region’s hot-topic ...

A little less than an hour ago, I stepped into the Bookstore Plus on Main Street to purchase a book and browse what is popular. As a librarian, this is an easy way for me to make my purchase list for the library. While there, a student of mine greeted me. Before I had finished saying how ...

One viewpoint of a 96-year-old female voter on the past, the present and voting for the future: Long ago and far away our founding fathers, with great wisdom and thoughtfulness, cited in an historic document that they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in their dream to ...

It has become common knowledge that we are dealing with some significant financial challenges at BluSeed Studios in Saranac Lake this summer and fall. We started an emergency GoFundMe fundraiser (www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-bluseeds-lights-on) that will bridge to our longer term plans for ...

If you ask people where Lake Placid gets its drinking water, most would answer Lake Placid lake. While this is correct, it is only part of the story. Until the late 1990s, water was pumped out of the lake, treated with chlorine and sent out to its water customers. By the year 2000, the ...

After 9/11 the police and fire departments were heroes. Now a little over 20 years later law enforcement has been villainized. Of late, there has been talk of defunding the police department and funding more social workers. While the idea of finding more funding for social workers to ...