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

Opera fills Pontiac Theater

I love the page one layouts of these old Enterprise copies. It was a tradition that the headline over any story, one, two or more columns wide would carry a number of subheads. What better way to introduce this story than run a copy of those 1925 headlines. “Saranac Lake lovers of that ...

A look at the 1923 SLHS football team

Stick with me here — my 98 year-old Enterprise has so much great news. How else could one have discovered that 2023 is the 100th Anniversary of the Saranac Lake High School football team? My pal, Michele Tucker, curator of the Adirondack Room of the Saranac Lake Free Library, has ...

100th anniversary of SLHS football

Wow, what a difference a hundred years makes! I have a piece of Saranac Lake High School football history from the Adirondack, not yet daily, Enterprise dated Friday, Aug. 28, 1925 — thanks to the Adirondack Room of the Saranac lake Free Library. I might find pictures of that first team ...

Softball league was big and popular

The following tells the entire story of the merger of Lake Placid and Saranac Lake softball teams and guess who pops up (no pun intended) — as a star outfielder; my friend Roby Politi, who really thinks he’s Merrill Thomas. Mr. Thomas graduated from Saranac Lake High School in 1924, ...

The beginning of Will Rogers Hospital

Saranac Village at Will Rogers — what an appropriate title for such a great institution. It began as a place to care for those with tuberculosis and is now a very classy place for Mom and Dad to live a retirement life in beautiful surroundings with the best in all services. Following is ...

Sterling chimps are no chumps

The above photo and headline is by my old pal, Bill McLaughlin, a wordsmith of the first order. The story was carried at the top of Page One of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise on Friday, Aug. 28, 1959 and is pure McLaughlin. The events were taking place at the “Home of 1,000 Animals” ...