To the editor: Lake Placid is a small community with many of the assets but also the issues of a larger community. As such, we are very fortunate to have so many individuals willing to be public servants. It is never easy to put oneself in a position of leadership, and it is always important to be mindful that the people you run against and serve with are your neighbors. The residents of Lake Placid show time and again that this is a special community that looks out for its own and value a commitment to maintaining the unique characteristcs of the community. With that in mind, I urge you to support Jamie Rogers for village mayor. Jamie’s record of serving for the good of the community is long and deep.
To the editor: Looking outside today, I see a bright white winter day of hope. As Joe Biden said on the eve of his inauguration, while he was honoring and remembering the unimaginable number of people lost to COVID, “To heal, we must remember. It’s hard sometimes to remember, but that’s how we heal. It’s important to do that as a nation. That’s why we are here today.” We must remember and then try to heal from the last four years when many objectionable acts were committed by the outgoing president. The latest of these were failing to enact a coherent coronavirus plan, leading to over 400,000 deaths, and the encouragement of insurrection against the Capitol to stop a free and fair election. We must also remember that Elise Stefanik is complicit in the attack on the Capitol and our Constitution due to continually repeating the lies that the election was not legitimate and by objecting to the counting of electors. These things are a dark stain on our country and will ta