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You Know What …? (local history), by Howard Riley

When the Irish settled in Alder Brook

What better time to look back at our Irish heritage than this day before St. Patrick’s on March 17. So much of the population of Saranac Lake was increased over the years by the Irish that migrated from Alder Brook. I can’t tell how clear the accompanying photo will reproduce. It is ...

Democrats gear up for village election

There was a lot going on 51 years ago, with the village elections coming up; the Adirondack Park Agency (established in 1971) heading for Albany to defend complaints regarding the agency; and a 12-county organizational meeting of local officials was scheduled with “concerns” about the ...

The Enterprise is 130 years old, Part II

Last week we covered stories by editors, reporters and publishers and this week we are going to do the same. There is so much history in this 1994 special edition by Publisher Catherine Moore and Editor John Penney. Maybe sometime in the future I will find a way for the Enterprise to ...

Enterprise is 130 years old

Enterprise Publisher/Advertising Manager Catherine Moore and Managing Editor John Penney turned out an incredible newspaper in the summer of 1994. The Enterprise was owned by Ogden Newspapers Inc., and G. Ogden Nutting said, “We are very proud to be the owners of the Adirondack Daily ...

Horse racing on Lower Saranac

This nearly 100-year-old copy of the Enterprise has only sports stories and social notes — the reason for that — I have only four pages of the newspaper, not page one with all the local news. The big event of the week, the horse races on Ampersand Bay, looked like they may have to be ...

Local sports — names and games

Smack-dab in the busy days of Winter Carnival the Enterprise never missed a beat when it came to sports coverage — Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake and Lake Placid. - St. Lawrence top ‘Skins - “Saranac Lake met defeat Saturday at the hands of St. Lawrence Central by a score of 6-5 on ...