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25 YEARS AGO — 1984 Poor accounting and unusually high enrollment during 1984 have left North Country Community College with about $447,000 in unexpected debt. The college greatly overspent its $4 million budget.
Canadian industrialist Victor Podd is working out details for a second building on his 333-acre Fort Montgomery Estates in Rouses Point. Podd and his associates are finalizing plans for a two-story, 40,000-square-foot building just east of Powertex.
With two parcels of land on Valcour Island still under private ownership, the State Department of Conservation is continuing a 10-year effort to bring the whole island under state control.
Following a staff recommendation that termed the proposed veterans' alternative tax exemption discriminatory, Clinton County legislators vote unanimously against granting veterans a special tax break.
50 YEARS AGO — 1959 During the month of November more passengers and automobiles entered the United States through Champlain than through any other port from Rouses Point to Cape Vincent. According to the report, 101,644 people and 26,075 cars entered at Champlain.
State Police and the Sheriff's Department are investigating the vandalism of heavy machinery at a gravel pit off Rugar Street, Plattsburgh. Someone drove a heavy bulldozer into a pond and put sand and gravel into the fuel tanks of two tractors.
The city discovers an error in the 1960 assessment roles that would have cost it $750 in taxes. Properties recently acquired by Plattsburgh Housing Authority were exempted from taxes by mistake.
The search of the waters at the mouth of the Saranac River continue for the body of a 3-year-old boy who is believed to have drowned. Randy Facteau was believed to have been swept away near his home on Riverside Avenue.
75 YEARS AGO — 1934 A happy Christmas at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bauer at 48 Monty St., Plattsburgh, terminated unhappily Christmas night when their home was destroyed by fire while they were absent paying a Christmas call on relatives and friends.
Pending appropriation of at least $9,500 additional due to the increased cost of materials in work on Lake Placid's new post office is suspended temporarily.
Trudeau Sanitorium is named beneficiary in the amount of $25,000 in the will of Elizabeth W. Childs, offered for probate in Pittsburgh.
One-hundred fifty patients at Sunmount Sanitorium are granted holiday leaves and spend Christmas at their homes in various parts of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
100 YEARS AGO — 1909 The Fort William Henry Hotel, burned last June, will be rebuilt by the Delaware and Hudson Co. The building will be four stories and fireproof in construction. The hotel will cost $250,000 plus $100,000 for a new station adjoining the hotel grounds.
Frank C. Raymond, a night conductor employed in the Delaware and Hudson yards in Plattsburgh, is almost instantly killed, his life being crushed out under a car he was endeavoring to uncouple a short distance east of the paper mill.
The private bridge erected by Plattsburgh Gas and Electric Co. across the Saranac River at the foot of Durkee Street is nearing completion and will be ready for use by the company within a few days. It will also carry a new gas main across the river.
At a meeting of the Fish and Game Club of Elizabethtown it was unanimously voted that protection be taken off skunks, and that a small bounty be paid.
— Compiled by Contributing Writer Sue Botsford, who can be reached at 834-7201 or botsford@westelcom.com
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