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September 15, 2008

Anonymous The Press Republican Mon Sep 15, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT

25 YEARS AGO -- 1983

A Supreme Court judge dismisses all claims and all defenses of foreclosure filed by Lake Placid Club Resort's controlling companies and by developer John R. Swaim. This paves the way (provided there is no appeal) for foreclosure.

The General Services Administration advises Congressman David Martin (R-Canton) that 246 GSA employees in his district will be out of work, reduced in grade or reassigned. In addition, the GSA field office in Plattsburgh will be abolished.

For three months starting with the Oct. 1 bills from Plattsburgh Municipal Lighting Department, electricity customers will see a slight decrease in the nuclear charge. The reduction is a result of a lawsuit against the Power Authority of the State of New York and the retirement of bonds that financed two hydropower projects.

A citizens group in Malone wants a prison constructed in its community and has begun selling the idea to the State Department of Correctional Services.

50 YEARS AGO -- 1958

A low bid of $3.1 million is received by the State Public Works Department for construction of a 2.5-mile section of the Northway in Clinton County. The bid was submitted by Northern Construction Corp. of Lawrence, Mass.

Signs of progress are becoming along the proposed relocation of the Northway west of Plattsburgh. Huge concrete overpass abutments have been erected along Route 3 over which the Northway will pass. Others have been erected along Tom Miller Road and along the proposed relocation of Beekman Street.

The Altona Town Board unanimously votes to create a townwide fire district, first step toward an extensive building and equipment-buying program.

75 YEARS AGO -- 1933

Several cases of polio are reported in the North Country. Two of these, one in Champlain and one in the City of Plattsburgh, have resulted in death. One case has been reported in Peru, and there is a patient with the disease in Willsboro.

John Bullock, 34, of Port Henry is indicted by an Essex County grand jury for first-degree murder. He is accused of slaying William Shelton, 35, May 23. The shooting was said to be an outgrowth of a three-year feud.

The United States and Canada join in paying tribute to Marquis de Lotbiniere, gallant Frenchman who built Fort Carillon, now Fort Ticonderoga. A monument to de Lotbiniere was unveiled in front of more than 2,000 people.

Francis Kourofsky, 6 years old of Lyon Mountain, is in serious condition at Alice Hyde Hospital in Malone as a result of having his right leg amputated above the ankle after being run over by a wheel of a freight train.

100 YEARS AGO -- 1908

Unless rain falls within the next few days, large tracks of Adirondack forest land will be ruined by many forest fires now burning in all parts of the north woods.

The water in the lake is at present the lowest it has been since 1881 and within six inches of the lowest mark known. Figuring from the high-water mark of the year 1869, it has fallen eight feet, 10 inches.

Don't allow water to go to waste. Use it for only absolutely necessary purposes. To do otherwise in this emergency is criminal.

After several months of uphill fighting in Keeseville, the Clinton Telephone Co. has won complete victory and was granted a franchise to string their wires in that village.