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, ...

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 ...

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” ...

There were many other news stories on page 1 of that nearly 100-year-old newspaper, including a fundraiser by the Lend-a-Hand Society “for undernourished school children.” The society was selling “cultivated roses arriving by tomorrow’s early morning train. The aid of a number of ...

Well, a little more than 60 years ago, I keep telling you that four out three people can’t do math. I always imagine what it would be like if some old timers could come back and take a look at what happened — things that followed after they had laid the groundwork. For instance, how ...

Well, dear readers of this incredible, detailed wonderful historic weekly column; judging from the response from the last two issues taken from a 1895 weekly Lake Placid newspaper, you love the stories as much as I do. The advertising is as interesting as the stories... unfortunately, no ...