Maybe I love the Winter Carnival so much because, without ever having to do any work to stage this historic event, I have participated in it in so many ways. The parade was always exciting for me; first marching as a Boy Scout, then with the Saranac Lake High School Band under Charles ...

Above, The Enterprise headline Dec. 31, 1999 — there was no Enterprise on Jan. 1, 2000. But boy, did they do a bang-up job on the issue at hand, all about celebrations in Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake, Lake Placid and Washington, D.C. It seems like yesterday to me and, hello, the new century ...

The headline on page one of an Enterprise in February 1973 prompted the editor at that time to have Joe Drutz write a story about his experience as a POW. Pretty cool, don’t you think? So, let’s get right to it. “It gives me a funny feeling to hear and read about operation ...

Page One was loaded with local stories, 67 years ago, from Lake Placid’s First Annual Eastern Invitational Ski Jump to the Saranac Lake Free Library looking to buy the Guild House. And you know what else? Jim Ellis and John McGill won oratorical awards ... and my friend, Mr. Ellis, hasn’t ...

Santa’s Workshop opened on July 1, 1949, so it is advertising now, rightly so, in this year 2025 as the 75th Anniversary of that famous theme park — AKA — the North Pole. I have an Enterprise treasure right here on my cluttered desk dated, dated May 18, 1955, a special “summer ...

Mrs. Mary Manchester, English instructor at the Saranac Lake High School, did a meticulous job on the 150-year history of Saranac Lake. The sub-head at the top of Page One read: “Researched, Complied and Edited under the Direction of Mrs. Mary Manchester.” Too bad that I can’t give my ...