25 YEARS AGO — 1984 The Plattsburgh Pioneers should be given two weeks to clear up its financial plight, a negotiating team recommends to the city. But as the size of the hockey team's debt comes into focus, some administrators question the Pioneer's ability to recover financially.
The Essex County Highway Department is resisting a directive from the Adirondack Park Agency that would require it to get a permit for chemical spraying it conducts along road sides to control weed and brush growth.
The state plans to close Route 9B from Coopersville to Rouses Point while the bridge over the Delaware and Hudson Railway tracks is rebuilt. Champlain Town and Rouses Point Village officials are upset, saying it puts lives and property in jeopardy.
A project of a complex of professional office buildings and retail shops located on Lake Champlain between the Jackpot Motel and the Georgia-Pacific mill gets City Planning Board approval. The developer of the $700,000 project is J.D. Dame.
50 YEARS AGO — 1959 The number of prospective jurors called for the trial of Air Force Sgt. Ernest Dixon, accused of killing his wife, rises to 850 when a new list of 200 is drawn. It is believed to be the largest panel ever summoned for a trial in Clinton County. Ten jurors have been seated.
The locks at the Clinton County Jail are unjammed allowing the seven prisoners locked in their cells to get out after 24 hours. The jammed locks were on the first floor of the new addition.
Clinton County's number of suspected polio cases climbs to 18 with the report from the County Health Department that a 3-year-old child is under observation. The child under observation is from Plattsburgh.
A reduction in city taxes appears in store next year as assessments increase by nearly $1 million. Real property values now total $30,340,080.
75 YEARS AGO — 1934 A fire, which was discovered at the Lakeside Inn at Port Kent, sweeps through the 40-room structure and destroys the wood-frame building in two hours time. The inn, owned by Martin Rennell, was unoccupied at the time.
Fire, which threatened the residential section of Ticonderoga, breaks out in the home of Dr. H.L. Gaus, Essex County coroner. The flames destroyed the rear of his residence with damage estimated at $10,000.
Work on construction of the new paper mill bridge in Chateaugay is nearing completion. The work was started last winter as a Civic Works Administration project.
C.H. Elliott, president of Elliott Hardwood Co. of Tupper Lake, announces that wood operations in the Racquet River sector have opened and three million feet of hardwood will be cut this season.
100 YEARS AGO — 1909 More iron ore was shipped from Port Henry during the month of September than during any month since the mines in Mineville have been in operation. Seventy-two thousand tons of ore were shipped.
An order is issued by Franklin County Judge Paddock, under the new search and seizure provision of the excise law, for destruction of liquor found at the Tobin Hotel in the Village of Chateaugay some time ago. About $200 worth will be destroyed.
The superiority of the Lozier automobiles is demonstrated at the Brighton Beach 24-hour endurance race when Lozier cars won first and second and both established world records for the distance covered.
The work of macadamizing Broad Street will be completed within the next two weeks, the road now being top dressed above William Street.
— Compiled by Contributing Writer Sue Botsford, who can be reached at 834-7201 or botsford@westelcom.com
