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November 30, 2008

Anonymous The Press Republican Sat May 15, 2010, 01:17 AM EDT

25 YEARS AGO — 1983
  Applications by both Meadowbrook Nursing Home in Plattsburgh and Uihlein Mercy Center in Lake Placid to increase the number of beds at their respective institutions receive final approval by the Health Systems Agency of Northeastern New York.

  A record Olympic Center concert crowd of 10,700 jam the 1980 Olympic Arena to watch famed singer Kenny Rogers perform. The concert produced the biggest North Country crowd ever to gather for such an event.

  The Plattsburgh Zoning Board of Appeals gives unanimous support to revised plans for an apartment complex at the corner of Walworth and Battery streets despite a letter from a neighbor who claims the property is an Indian burial ground.

  More than four inches of snow falls over the North Country making roads slippery and forcing motorists to creep along the snow-covered highways. Roads in places were described as like glass or like a skating rink.

50 YEARS AGO — 1958
  An $80,000 blaze races through an aircraft hangar and destroys two planes at Plattsburgh's Municipal Airport. The hangar was owned by Diamond-Gardner Corp.

  S.S. Silberblatt Inc., the Capehart housing contractor at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, will appeal the Appellate Division decision he must pay a $137,890 mortgage-recording tax. He paid the tax in May under protest.

  Brinkerhoff Street will end at Beekman Street. The area of Brinkerhoff Street between Beekman and Draper Avenue will be taken over by the state in its plans for expansion of the State University Teachers College campus. A science building will be constructed in that area.

  The wife of an Immigration inspector will have a merry Christmas, the merriest in the past 20 years. She is able to see again. Aime Demers, 58, was recently discharged from a Montreal hospital where she underwent surgery to transplant a cornea in her eye.

75 YEARS AGO — 1933
  Prohibition comes to an end in the United States. Unlike the riotous days leading up to Prohibition, all is relatively quiet.

  Two small children of Mr. and Mrs. Oakley Tero of Willsboro are burned to death when fire destroys the Tero home. Another child and a roomer were severely burned. Two other Tero children and Oakley Tero also suffered burns.

  A large group of men and dogs are camped in the wilds of Bellmont conducting a widespread hunt for a wolf pack which has been roaming that township for months.

  Nearly 500 residents of Franklin County register with the federal re-employment bureau in Malone. They are seeking work under the CWA plan.

100 YEARS AGO — 1908
  The Clinton County Board of Supervisors adopts a resolution asking that the state forest, fish and game law be amended so the state will bear the whole cost of fighting forest fires in the Adirondacks. Under present law, the state pays half the cost in the Forest Preserve.

  W.A. McMartin, superintendent of the poor, reports to the Clinton County Board of Supervisors that salaries and supplies at the County Home during the past year were $12,335.70.

  It is reported the Essex Horse Nail Co. of Essex, which has been shutdown since April 15, will resume operation about the middle of the month.

  During the 11 months ending Dec. 1, the firemen in the city have responded to 64 calls of which three, including the Bridge Street fire, were in November.

— Compiled by Contributing Writer Sue Botsford, who can be reached at 834-7201 or botsford@westelcom.com