Dear Editor, The Lake Placid Alumni Association is one of the oldest alumni associations in the country. One of its missions is to assist alumni in continuing their education. In that endeavor, the association is now accepting applications for its alumni scholarship. All recipients must ...
Champions and historians of skiing were celebrated in Lake Placid over March 26 to 30, while another, the most accomplished US cross-country skier in history, Jessie Diggins, was burning up the Mount Van Hoevenberg course. As a consequence, it was nearly a perfect storm of skiing ...
The Temple Beth El, in Williamsburg, was recently once again a forum for a Sunday lecture. This time it was Dr. Joel Levine, who spent 41 years at NASA as Senior Research Scientist in the Science Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center and as Mars Scout Program Scientist at NASA ...
As I write this column, it is April first. I hate practical jokes, but I wouldn’t mind so much if they were limited to one day a year when I could stay home and not answer the phone. A day like today, April Fools’ Day. The conventional wisdom is that nobody knows how or when April ...
What happened last month at the Tupper Lake Pine Mill is something that is taking place across New York and much of our nation. Last month, officials from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided the location and detained nine employees. This week, a company spokeswoman indicated ...
To the editor: As far back as the 5th century BC, Plato decried demagogues who propagate disinformation about a target group in order to stir up public fear of them and then present themselves as protectors of the public from their fabricated danger. President Donald Trump’s ...