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

School and village boards are busy

“Members of the Saranac Lake Central School Board met last night in special session, with the architect for their building program, Robert Clark of Syracuse. “Mr. Clark reported on progress on plans for the two new schools and the renovation of Petrova School and warned the board for ...

Nixon resigns — Aug. 9, 1974

That was the headline in the Enterprise on that long ago day but this column is about local sports and loaded with photos ... well, at least a couple of photos. So let’s get started with a bit of sports with the news about a “Big” Little League Tournament scheduled for Saranac ...

Students create ‘time capsule’

Entire page 9 in the Enterprise of Feb. 1, 1974 proclaimed with this six column headline: “Making A Time Capsule for 2023.” Although there is no mention of how and where — or if the information was actually buried in an environmentally sealed container — the research and notes made by ...

Whiteface Highway’s birthday

A page one headline on the Adirondack Daily Enterprise of July 20, 1960, read: “Today’s 25th Birthday of Whiteface Highway.” “Twenty-five years ago today, on July 20, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Whiteface Mountain Memorial Highway with the exuberant cry: ...

School budgets pass in Saranac Lake, Lake Placid

This week’s column will be based on a copy of The Adirondack Daily Enterprise of June 11, 1969, through the courtesy of Mark Peppin, who has given me a treasure of Enterprises from the past. Thank you, Mark. So let’s begin with the Saranac Lake school budget, which drew a crowd of 370 ...

Village board juggling big problems

It was August 1949, Alton B. Anderson was mayor (he served three non-consecutive terms); village trustees were Irving Edelberg, Carl Smith, Willis Currier and Arthur Buck. Page One News... - Dog problem goes to town board - “Following complaints from home owners and sanatorium ...