The lead, page one story in The Journal dated Oct. 22, 1970 was telling about a 700 pound bear shot near Tupper Lake. “The recent shooting of one of the largest black bears ever recorded in the Adirondacks might have gone without notice if Saranac Lake alert taxidermist, Jack Taylor, had ...

We summarized the history here last week of the “The Journal,” a weekly newspaper with headquarters in Lake Placid, edited by Fred Ellers and Bill McLaughlin. We are going to give it another shot along with publishing the Harrietstown voter enrollment for 1938, graciously on loan to ...

I mentioned and quoted from The Journal a few weeks ago … a weekly newspaper published by the Saranac-Lake-Placid Trumpet, Inc., every Thursday at 245 Main St., Lake Placid. Now, thanks to my pal King Bunk and to my friend and neighbor, Jeff Wood, who lives down the road apiece from me and ...

Son-of-a-gun ­— Mayor Peacock and Strack admit error (no, no, not Jerry) over “mutilation” of property and parking lot assessment, storms were lashing the country … but also on a happier note, just look at the picture honoring the JV football team. The young woman reporter by the ...

Usually the only books that I care to review are my own. But now my friend Jim Ellis, big man in politics and education for so many years, has published a gem of a book, “Len’s Boys,” with his collaborator Carol Payment Poole, about Tupper Lake men in the service in World War II writing ...

Why does 18 years ago seem to me more like 18 months ago? Maybe it’s because I have been around for so long. So, here I go again, backing into a story. Before the news of town business in Santa Clara, Harrietstown, Tupper Lake and Keene read on — remember, this is October ...