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

Creating the APA

What a difference a day makes; what I really mean is — what a difference 18,980 days make. Ellen George was editor of the Lake Placid News in January 1971. She was a prolific editor and reporter and filled this front-page edition with stories about the creation of the Adirondack Park ...

Changing Saranac Lake to Trudeau

It’s incredible that this 112-year-old copy of the Enterprise contains a letter to the editor in praise of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau from a former patient who knew him personally — suggesting that the village of Saranac Lake change its name to Trudeau. The letter writer was Michael ...

Changing Saranac Lake to Trudeau

It’s incredible that this 112-year-old copy of the Enterprise contains a letter to the editor in praise of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau from a former patient who knew him personally — suggesting that the village of Saranac Lake change its name to Trudeau. The letter writer was Michael ...

Local drivers in 140-mile outboard race

I believe this story will blow you away; especially if you are one who has every spent any time driving a boat with an outboard motor. In the 1940’s, all of us high school kids drove a lot of outboards with motors of various horsepower owned by parents and usually tied to the docks at the ...

World’s Fair opening

Page One — “New York, May 1 (AP) — New York’s $160,000,000 World’s Fair which took three years to build, is here at last. “The greatest international exposition in history — two square miles of Long Island embracing 300 gleaming buildings, 50 miles of roads and 35,000 employees ...

Historic Saranac Lake landmark razed

There was a big story on Page 1 of the Enterprise dated Feb. 1, 1955, about the historic Spalding Block being torn down, located where the Verizon Communications store is today at the corner of Main and River streets. And “Believe it or Else,” all this information surfaced from the ...