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25 YEARS AGO — 1984, 1985 The Salmon River overflows its banks sending hundreds of Malone residents to higher ground, taking with it the dam at Ballard Mill Center for the Arts and leaving in its wake nearly $500,000 in damage. In the City of Plattsburgh, mobile-home parks Underwood Estates and Riverside Mobile Home Park also had to be evacuated.
The Clinton County Legislature opens and closes its 1985 season in bitterness as legislators in an unprecedented move fail to elect a new chairman and board Democrats block a Republican plea for a temporary compromise.
The storm that plastered the North Country with a layer of ice made traveling near impossible for mailmen, bus drivers and commuters. For only the second time in memory, Plattsburgh Postmaster Terry Rogers called on his carriers and cancelled city mail delivery because of winter weather.
The Town of Jay plans to build a new Town Garage on the Valley Road at the site of the former landfill. The garage will replace the one lost in a devastating fire Nov. 12.
50 YEARS AGO — 1959, 1960 Ferry service between Cumberland Head and Grand Isle, Vt., is due to set a record this year for late winter time runs. The plan is to run through Jan. 8, one day longer than the previous record.
Snow, light in water content but in depths ranging from six inches to more than a foot, blankets the North Country. There was some drifting, especially on the north-south roads.
Carrier mail service to residents of Prospect Avenue is in the projected plans early in the coming year. They now receive their mail in roadside mailboxes.
Alexandria Marie Brunell is the first baby born in Plattsburgh in 1960. She was born at Champlain Valley Hospital at 12:36 a.m. Jan. 1 and weighed 10 pounds, three ounces. She is the fourth daughter of Arthur J. and Rita Simard Brunell of Plattsburgh.
75 YEARS AGO — 1934, 1935 Vincent DeLeo, alias Vincent Amerigo, will die in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison within a few weeks unless the governor intervenes and commutes his sentence. His conviction for killing Guard Daniel Nickerson at Clinton Prison was upheld by the Court of Appeals.
All main roads are open following a snow storm and fierce winds. Between 15 and 16 cars were stranded between Malone and Ellenburg, and motorists were forced to take shelter at nearby farm houses.
A total of 230 parcels of land in Franklin County are sold for unpaid taxes. Of this total number, 157 parcels were bid by the county. Seventy-three were sold to individuals.
The Saranac Lake Substation of the State Police Troop B is moved from the Hotel Alpine annex to a large private dwelling at Ray Brook near the Brown Bear Inn.
100 YEARS AGO — 1909, 1910 E.A. Whitney & Son of Brushton makes probably the largest shipment of furs which ever went out of this sector of the county. The sale price was in the neighborhood of $5,000 and the skins were principally mink, muskrat, skunk, fox and coon.
Hon. George A. Stevens of Lake Placid, Paul Smith Jr., John Myers of Rouses Point and Charles Flynn, an expert silver miner, and others have acquired five silver-mining claims of 40 acres situated 32 miles by rail and stage from Cobalt near Gowganda Lake.
The Plattsburgh Board of Public Works awards the contract for the new reservoir dam on Mead Brook to low bidder J.J. Fitzpatrick and Sons of Plattsburgh. The bid was for $31,116.45.
The late Sidney B. Hubbell of Saratoga, formerly of Champlain, leaves $1,000 to the Presbyterian Church in Champlain, $500 to the Ladies Aid Society of that church and $500 to the Methodist Church in Champlain.
— Compiled by Contributing Writer Sue Botsford,
who can be reached at 834-7201 or botsford@westelcom.com
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