Editorials

A democracy cannot flourish without a well-informed citizenry

The most important — indeed essential — service that a library or a newspaper provides is access to information. Without a well-informed citizenry, a democracy — a government of the people, by the people, for the people, as Abraham Lincoln phrased it — cannot flourish.

Letters to the Editor

Future of rural cemetery depends on you

Sue Jordan, Secretary-Treasurer, Thompsons Lake Rural Cemetery

Looking for examples of a shocking claim

Cindy Adams-Kornmeyer, Westerlo

See if there is a fire in you

Sean Fitzmaurice, 1st Lieutenant, New Salem Volunteer Fire Department

Gather with your neighbors to green up and clean up Altamont

Ted Neumann, Altamont Community Tradition

Swing with the saints!

Theresa Strasser, Publicist, Friendship Singers

Help keep our rural cemetery beautiful

JoAnne Brady, Vice President, Woodlawn Cemetery Board

Bring a basket and a smile to church egg hunt

Bonnie O’Shea, Church Elder, New Scotland  Presbyterian Church

Speechless and angry at rejection of IDA funds

Robyn Gray, Chairwoman, Guilderland, Coalition for Responsible Growth

Awe: One on one with whales

by Mike Nardacci

My first whale watch did not go well.

At the time I was a student in meteorology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine on Mount Desert Island. It was the Fourth of July — a holiday for students — and a day on which it seemed half the population of the Northeast had poured into Bar Harbor.

Pages