Michael J. Fitzgerald

The thermometer at my Lakewood, N.Y., home was just outside the back door when I was growing up, easily checked to see how hot — or cold — the day

After two jet flights last week from Portland, Ore., to Elmira, N.Y., I was exhausted and ready to get to a cousin’s guest room in Hector. It was already midnight

The deck of my friend’s house in the woods overlooking the south end of Seneca Lake was ideal, a nature-filled setting to sip my Sunday-morning tea and quietly meditate, well

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation last week telegraphed it likely will approve a permit application that would allow for a major

Last Sunday my phone blew up with alerts from the Seneca Lakes Pure Waters Association that harmful algal blooms were being reported up and down Seneca Lake. From north to

It’s the season for weddings and parties in the Finger Lakes. And like most people, I have favorite songs — particularly if dancing is part of the celebration. Some songs

On my third day as a beginning reporter at the daily Napa Register newspaper, my editor handed me a copy of a competitor's paper.

The national spotlight shined brightly last week on Democratic Vice President candidate Tim Walz of Minnesota, particularly after he gave a barn-burner of a speech the third night of the

Seneca Meadows Inc. is hot to get a state permit to expand and continue its landfill operations until 2040.

The New York Times and the Washington Post are taking a justified pounding from media critics over hypercritical analysis of the Democratic Party candidates for president and vice president.