News from June 1941 looks much like today’s news. According to an Enterprise article from Sept. 9 about Saranac Lake’s infrastructure project, the village board plans to purchase a new heavy rescue truck for the fire department for $900,000 by 2027. Prices have gone up a little in the ...

Thanks to Mike and Sheryl Madden, we have a chance to look back at Lake Placid’s sports-jammed schedule for the winter months ... 85 years ago. After an alert from former Enterprise editor Peter Crowley, we rushed to Madden’s Transfer & Storage, as it used to be called, where Mike ...

I believe that most of the following information was in a feature story in the Enterprise. The background pieces were gathered and archived by the late Natalie Leduc (nee Natalie Bombard Corl), my friend and 1948 Saranac Lake High School classmate. I really loved the night skiing. Just imagine ...

I spent a lot of time at Mt. Pisgah back in the 1950s and ‘60s with the family learning to ski, including me, and later as a village official. As village manager, I had the idea to build the tubing run, which the village board then approved. After all the paper work was finished, I jumped ...

It seems that many times I take “things” for granted that have existed longer than I have. One of those “things” is the beautiful highway that brings us to the top of beautiful Whiteface Mountain. Imagine for a minute, in 1929, the construction of an eight-mile, 20-foot wide highway ...

It was nice to see The Enterprise carry a story like the Moose picnic — people having fun, no politics ... and the local news was more fun! “More than 75 members of the Loyal Order of the Moose and the Women of the Moose and their friends attended the joint Moose picnic yesterday ...