Let’s be clear, the Express discourages me from impersonating a bona fide news reporter, because the contrarians I interrogate don’t waste their time at public meetings, reading newspapers, indulging TV talking-heads or corrupting their viewpoints with pertinent particulars. They respond to cross-examination on a visceral level, knowing innately the difference between perception and malarkey. They consider indisputable facts, fabricated implements of the New World Order, spearheaded by the Federal Reserve System and the Bank of ...
David Sommerstein, North Country Public Radio (88.7 Old Forge) Assistant News Director/Reporter, won two of the Station s five 2008 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence from the Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), first for Best Continuing Coverage for his year-long series, Immigration in the North Country, looking at Congress failure to pass immigration reform, former Governor Spitzer s failed drivers license plan, following the immigration issues closely on area farms, and ...
Wednesday, May 7 was Community Pride Day, and the proud citizens of our towns could be seen in a blaze of orange picking up trash and debris in Okara Lakes, Thendara, Old Forge, Eagle Bay, Big Moose, and Inlet. Organized by the Inlet Information Office and the Town of Webb Visitor Information Center, the event kicked off the spring cleaning season, which falls somewhere between mud season and black fly season. Volunteers were rewarded with ...
When Seventh Lake House builder Duane Norton died, the Hotel was sold to Frank Williams in 1903 for $7,000, and it reverted soon after to his brother Charles Williams, a teamster from the building of Seward Webb’s Adirondack railroad in 1892 who operated Lake View Lodge on Big Moose Lake. He made extensive repairs and improvements to the building and grounds. His son Fred took over management of it (and later inherited it) and benefitted ...
Have you ever heard the old cliché, He would step over a hundred dollar bill to pick up a penny? I have and have seen many examples of it happening daily. Usually it involves individuals but nowhere on the scale of various governmental organizations. The reason being most individuals are spending their own money and are, for the most part, as conscientious as possible about getting the most for their buck. Governmental agencies, by virtue ...
