25 YEARS AGO — 1985 North Elba Supervisor Matthew Clark says Essex County taxpayers could save money if North Country Community College were to utilize the Yandon-Dillon Education Center in Mineville, but the college president is lukewarm to the idea, at best.
Questions are being raised in Keeseville since the Village Board stuck a "for sale" sign on the front of the Civic Center about a month ago. The Village Board has been trying to wash its hands of the white elephant for two years.
Although North Country Community College has been in southern Essex County for a while, it officially opens the doors of its Ticonderoga Branch campus. It is located in the Community Building on Montcalm Street.
City Police and the Clinton County Social Services officials have found the woman who left her newborn daughter at CVPH Medical Center Jan. 7. They refuse to identify her pending possible grand jury action.
50 YEARS AGO — 1960 Beekmantown voters solidly defeat proposals for construction of a new elementary school on Cumberland Head. Although supporters of the school were outvoted by only 15 ballots, they fell short of the 562 votes needed for passage. Out of the 843 votes cast, a two-thirds majority was needed.
Following the defeat of the construction proposal, the Beekmantown Board of Education believes double sessions in some grades will be necessary in the fall. This may include students up to grade 3.
A Westport man is seriously burned in a fire that destroyed his wood-frame home in Westport. Harwood Pfund, 43, was listed in satisfactory condition at Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington.
Polio cases reported in Clinton County in 1959 skyrocketed to 18 after an absence of the disease in the previous year. Three of the 18 victims died.
75 YEARS AGO — 1935 Ticonderoga Fire Chief William Gregory and fireman Harry Clark are injured when they fall from the roof of Leo LaRock's home on Schuyler Street while fighting a small chimney fire.
A fire that originated in the basement of the M.H. Fishman store in the Levy Block on Margaret Street in Plattsburgh causes damage estimated at $10,000. The efficient work of the Fire Department averted what threatened to be a more destructive fire.
Leon Filion, 30, of Plattsburgh is shot by a state trooper. He is in the Elizabethtown Community Hospital under guard. He had disregarded a trooper's signal to stop his truck loaded with 1,000 gallons of alcohol.
State troopers traveled 1,298,125 miles throughout northern New York during 1934 patrolling their territory, according to the annual report of Troop B.
100 YEARS AGO — 1910 The Public Service Commission has received an application from the Elizabethtown Terminal Railway Co. for consent to issue a first mortgage for $175,000 and for permission to issue bonds in the amount of $150,000 and common capital stock in the amount of $50,000. The railroad would run from Westport to Elizabethtown.
In the annual report of the New York State Hospital for Treatment of Incipient Pulmonary Tuberculosis at Ray Brook, submitted to the Legislature, emphasis is given to the fact the facilities are inadequate.
John Lynch of Minerva, Essex County, a farmer and lumberman, is kicked by a horse and sustained injuries from which he died a short time later. Medical assistance was summoned but arrived too late. Lynch was about 50 years old.
Jacques Villaine, a French Canadian lumberjack, working in a lumber camp on the Wilmington side of Whiteface Mountain, dies of a broken neck when he falls about 14 feet from a pile of logs.
— Compiled by Contributing Writer Sue Botsford, who can be reached at 834-7201 or botsford@westelcom.com
