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

Blast 1000-foot tunnel through solid rock for sewer line

What a gigantic job the village of Saranac Lake was facing to put in a new sewer line. It connected under the hill from Dorsey Street and School Street into the area around the new Petrova High School. Two pieces of Dorsey Street still exist; one section from Petrova Avenue (turn right 50 ...

Arrested — hunting with hounds

Another great story on page 1 of the Adirondack Enterprise dated March 29, 1906. How nice it was for the residents of this region to have the Enterprise bring them the news [at that time published three days a week] as the only source of news. The first radio broadcast “in world history” ...

New village board installed, three police officers hired

What a different world it was in Saranac Lake 117 years ago ... and everywhere else, I would guess. It is difficult to figure out from the page 1 story about the new board because it appears that that they were all elected at the same time. Except, one trustee term may have been unexpired. ...

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 ...