Well, the economy has changed a little in the last 104 years, especially when we look at the Saranac Lake Central School District. The budget for 2025 is $38.1 million and the tax rate is $7.93 per thousand. The 1921 budget total of $106,687.12 has been reduced by about $23,000 “from the ...

Page One — “Raises Wild Ducks with A Hen, Saranac Lake Jury Says That J. J. Rafferty is A Game Benefactor” “The duck was a wild duck and seems to have left her bed and board, although the Game Wardens contend that the interference of J. J. Rafferty prevented her from performing her ...

This 105-year-old Enterprise is filled with interesting, odd stories — some we probably would not print today. When I was a town justice, we had a slang name, “stay away order,” for issuing a restraining order. Now, I found a judge in 1921 issuing a kind of stay away order. More about ...

The children’s play park and basketball courts located at the corner of Broadway and Bloomingdale Avenue in Saranac Lake are dedicated to former German Prisoner of War Kenneth Garwood. I am happy to say that I was a friend of Ken Garwood. I covered village board meetings when he was a ...

The following news is from the Feb. 17, 1940 edition of the Enterprise. “Interest in the proposed development of a Whiteface Mountain ski center to serve the entire Northern Adirondack region was evinced by representatives of several towns and villages [names, names, names?] who attended ...

Page One of this old copy carried more news than today’s Enterprise because the page was 18 inches wide — now 11 inches — and no photos. Since it is not possible to print the entire page, I will cover many stories of the breaking news in brief. The date of this publication is only ...