This is Chapter II from this treasure of a newspaper given to me by Greg Peacock. Last week we published the name of the editor/owner, J. W. Ball and the rates, etc., as required by law. However, by reading down further, we discovered Mr. Ball was the new owner. “We have been running this ...

The title tells it all — a weekly, four-page newspaper that was “Published Every Saturday Morning at Lake Placid, N.Y.” Subscription price $1 a year, J. W. Ball, editor. Greg Peacock gave me a copy of this newspaper and as we perused his faded, tattered copy, we wondered why the front ...

I am going to back into this story. The Sr. Regis Hotel which stood at the corner of Broadway and Bloomingdale Avenue burned down in 1964. Growing up here in the 1940’s, the Hotel St. Regis was a hub of activity as the bus stop for Trailways and Greyhound with multiple runs every day. The ...

The salary scale was just a tiny, little bit different 57 years ago in Saranac Lake and around the U.S ... read this page one story. Whoops! Before you rush down to apply for this position — that was then, this is now: “The Chamber hopes to pay a minimum salary of $5,500 for area ...

Last week in this space, the title of the column was “Birth of the APA.” The date and source of the story was “The Lake Placid News, May 27, 1971.” The New York State Assembly passed the bill that created the Adirondack Park Agency on June 7, 1971 and the Senate did the same, the ...

Teddy Roosevelt — New York governor in 1899 and 1900 — would have loved the establishment of the Adirondack Park Agency ... because in his short term, his environmental accomplishments were legend. Of course, in another important job, he was president of the United States from Sept. ...