During a week that saw rising COVID-19 positivity, escalating tension between police and social justice activists in Saratoga Springs, and continued political fallout from a potentially illegal leak in the state's ethics oversight commission, a little levity came from news of the return of an annual naked stroll through Howe Caverns.

Also on this episode, Kristi Gustafson Barlette talks about her recent column on kids returning to school in masks due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The column solicited a lot of responses from our readers – on both sides of the masking debate.

And finally, did reporter Ken Crowe see a ghost while visiting a Lansingburgh house? We'll hear more about his experience at the allegedly haunted abode that once played host to prohibition era gangster Legs Diamond.

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