25 YEARS AGO — 1984 The Board of Cooperative Educational Services forms a committee to discuss the possible closing of the Mineville BOCES Center. The five-member panel will decide the fate of the 128 students who attend the Mineville facility.
An attempt by businessmen to save the dying Plattsburgh Pioneers Hockey Club was unsuccessful, and the Common Council for all practical purposes gives up on saving the franchise. The council authorizes the drafting of a resolution calling in the letter of credit posted by the team's owner/coach Dr. Denis Methot.
The future of the Off Track Betting parlor in Malone is still on hold awaiting a decision by the New York State Racing and Wagering Board on whether the parlor should be closed. It has not been showing a profit.
The fate of the Old Dock Road in Saranac Lake is put on hold after the Harrietstown Town Board members decide to table a motion made to appeal the qualified abandonment rejection.
50 YEARS AGO — 1959 Congress appropriates $960,000 for construction of landing safety devices at Plattsburgh Air Force Base. The funds are intended for the construction of runway extensions and the installation of an approach lighting system.
The opening of the fall term of the Supreme Court in Clinton County has been postponed a week until Nov. 9 because it is anticipated the murder trial of Staff Sgt. Ernest Dixon will extend into the first week in November.
Mayor John Tyrell's plan to move the city dump to an area near the airport — a plank in his campaign platform — may not fly. Town of Plattsburgh Supervisor Norman Miller Jr. says he will fight the plan to move it to his town. The Federal Aviation Agency said smoke from the dump might halt flights to and from the airport.
A petition and application for the establishment of a Cumberland Head fire district is sent to the New York State Department of Audit and Control. Approval is expected in about two weeks.
75 YEARS AGO — 1934 A grand jury of North Countrymen in Franklin County orders Thomas Frederick Showers, 27, a former Civilian Conservation Corps worker, to trial for the murder of 14-year-old farm girl Cleo Tellstone, ravished and slain near her home in Vermontville.
The business section of Schroon Lake is swept by fire, destroying three blocks and badly wrecking a fourth. For a time it appeared the entire area would be wiped out. The loss is estimated at between $75,000 and $100,000.
Operations at the Witherbee Sherman Corp. mines at Mineville have ceased for an indefinite period of time. This throws a large number of residents of the Town of Moriah out of work.
Concrete work on Ticonderoga Grange's new home is complete, and rapid progress is being made on erecting the framework.
100 YEARS AGO — 1909 There is the liveliest kind of fight over the county-seat question in Essex County. The supporters of both Port Henry and Elizabethtown are working tooth and nail, banners having been flung to the breeze in several towns, and every town in the county is being canvassed for votes.
It is stated that in the Town of Chateaugay, the potato crop was of such immense proportions that some of the district schools were closed to allow students to help harvest the tubers, there being a decided lack of grown-ups to do the work.
Work for rebuilding the Hotel Ruisseaumont at Lake Placid is well under way, and everything indicates that there will rise from the ruins of last July's fire a building that for modern appointments cannot be surpassed.
The Lozier automobile finishes third in the Portola road race at Oakland, Calif., being only two laps behind in the course of 258 miles.
— Compiled by Contributing Writer Sue Botsford, who can be reached at 834-7201 or botsford@westelcom.com
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