Decades of accidents on a stretch of Route 32 in New Scotland should spur the state's Department of Transportation to take action on its own recommendations or the April 17 crash won't be the last.
The monarch massacre — the billion butterflies that made the epic flight from the eastern United States to Mexico each fall has fallen to only about 33 million — should served to warn us like the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
We blushed with shame as we leafed through crumbling copies of our newspaper to illustrate our article on the KKK; in the 1920s, we carried notices of Klan meetings without any hint of criticism. How far have we come?
We are gratified to be recognized by our peers in an annual state press contest, but the best recognition is in the sincere responses of our readers who enliven our pages each week.
