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To the editor: Baker Mountain and Moody Pond are wonderful natural resources for our communities. Forest Hill Avenue around Moody Pond is mainly in the village of Saranac Lake, with small portions within the domains of the towns of St. Armand and North Elba. The trailhead is controlled by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in hikers on Baker Mountain. This has exasperated the limited parking by the trailhead. It has also caused more traffic on Forest Hill Avenue. We have also seen an increase in pedestrian and bicycle use. Pe...

LAKE PLACID — The only town supervisor in the Olympic Region to have a Wikipedia page is Jay Rand, and there’s only one sentence on the page: “Jay Rand

Southold teen to attend prestigious Curtis Institute of Music Southold High School senior Juliet Rand plays the organ at St. Patrick’s R.C. Church in Southold. (Credit: Jeremy Garretson) When Juliet Rand was just 8 years old, her grandparents Ronnie and Jerry Matovcik took her to a local vineyard to see an opera concert. It was an experience that likely would be forgettable for most children that age, but it left a profound impression on her. “I was just in awe of the singers,” Juliet, now 18, said in a Zoom interview last week. “I told them, ‘T...

Lake Placid a city? The Lake Placid Village Board Monday night named a five-man committee to look into the ramifications of establishing a city government to replace the present village organization. The move has been under consideration by the board for the past few months as a means of solving their financial problems. Mayor Robert Peacock said at a recent board meeting that the village has reached a point where it must look for an additional source of money beyond real estate taxes. The advantage of forming a city is that they could immediately establish a sales tax as a means of income.