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

Largest class at Trudeau School

Thank you to Historic Saranac Lake for preserving the story of our beautiful village in the Adirondacks. That story, as we all know, centers on the health industry; more specifically Saranac Lake became known as the best place in the world to cure for tuberculosis when Dr. Edward Livingston ...

1948: PSC students critical after car crash

“Two students from Paul Smith’s College were critically injured and five others badly hurt at 1:30 o’clock this morning when their automobile rammed into the engine of a northbound freight train extra at the Lake Clear Junction railroad crossing on the main highway, Route ...

Grocery shopping in the big time

A brief 63 years ago, my column was over 1,000 words, and the newspaper pages were bigger. The column was 20 inches in length, and we were not paid more for writing a column; it was just part of the job. What makes this one so special for me is that it that it was retrieved by Marilee Dupree ...

Busy year at the hospital

I discovered an entire area of the Adirondack Health building, which I still often call the Saranac Lake General Hospital, while trying to find my pal Matthew Scollin; a man all knowing about all things at the Health Center and, by the way, Saranac Lake village trustee and deputy mayor. I ...

Old breaking news in brief

Well, let’s see. Maybe we should begin with an Enterprise story of Nov. 2, 1956 about the Lake Placid Chamber getting a big raise. “An expanded state and international advertising program and an increase in North Elba contribution for the Lake Placid Chamber of Commerce (I still love ...

Homecoming Weekend

In a tabloid format, the Enterprise staff, of which I was a member, cranked out a special edition of the newspaper on Friday, Sept. 29, 1959. Page one carried a boxed notice highlighting the weekend program beginning Friday night at 9 with an “Open House” at the Elks Club. On Saturday ...