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 ...

Here are the subheads on that exciting story from 100 years ago. “New Hotels Planned, Improvements Under Way and Extensive Additions to Present Hostelries Will Afford Limitless Accommodations.” “Lake Placid is on the crest of the greatest prosperity wave in its history. From all ...

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 ...