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 ...

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 ...

The horrible stories every day about the war in Ukraine are tough to read about. With civilians being targeted, including the killing of hundreds of children, it brings back many memories of WWII. I was age 11 and listening to the radio with my family when Pearl Harbor was bombed by the ...

I guess maybe I have watched more Winter Carnival Gala Parades than anyone else in town. Wait, that’s a big maybe, because Walter (Bud) Duffy has been here longer than meself, so he is probably the winner in that category. Last Saturday there were more spectators packed on the streets for ...

Melvil Dewey became famous for creating the Dewey Decimal System for library book classification when he was a 21-year-old student at Amherst College in 1872. However, Mr. Dewey was famous here, as we all know, after he built the Lake Placid Club as a summer resort in the late 1890s. It was ...

So, let us “Jump Right In,” as the subhead read over a story in the Boston Globe: “Lake Placid, its bid brochure proclaimed, was up where the mountains meet the sky and the deep, white snows of winter say to young and old, ‘Come up and play!’ “When the village won the nod ...