The holiday season is here again and it is perhaps a good idea to remember that the holidays can bring depressive reactions. ...more

December 3, 2008

LAKE PLACID — On Henscratch Road, a column of smoke moved from east to west, with the wind. Eight days later, the fire is still simmering. Two blocks away, behind Bert Dawson's mobile home on Grand Concourse Drive, there's more smoke. "Yesterday, the wind started it up again," said Dawson, who paused while building a deck between his home and his mother's travel trailer. "Little fires. I got on my 4-wheeler and went back there." Behind his ranchette, there's a hammock of pine and hardwood trees, and the underbrush is as thick as it gets in Florida. Somewhere — Dawson thinks it was east of his home — the Henscratch fire started on Feb. 11. ...more

February 19, 2008