SARANAC LAKE While the leaves are gearing up for peak color, some Adirondack artists are gearing up for the annual ArtWorks Studio Tours, which return this
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I started writing this column the way I’ve started doing almost everything  on a whim. As a result, I had no idea what I was doing. In fact, I was so out of it, I referred to what I was writing as “an article,” a gaffe so egregious that then-editor John Penny about apoplexed when he barked his correction at me. “Ahtical?” he snapped in his classy Long Island accent. “It’s a column, not an ahtical!” His reprimand did not go unheeded. But in all fairness, why would I have known the difference? Not only had I not studied journalism in college, I’d never even taken a 101 J course.
To the editor: George Bryjak, in his letter to the editor of Jan. 19, tries to ascribe our congresswoman, Elise Stefanik, as a sycophant. He rants on and o