Play street
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Village trustees are considering the proposal of Mayor George C. Owens to reserve one of the village thoroughfares as a play street for children to avoid accidents during the winter.
Trustee Luke Perkins suggested that the street extending from the top of the hill back of ...
Muskrat love
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With the opening of the muskrat season Dec. 1, many residing on Mirror Lake are wondering what will become of the pair who amused them all summer.
Although the trapping season in Essex and Washington counties does not open until April 20, concluding March 31, hunters in ...
Mourning JFK
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Lake Placid joined communities large and small across the nation this week in mourning the death by an assassin’s hand of President John F. Kennedy.
The first reports from the scene at Dallas, Texas, came shortly after 1 p.m. last Friday. The news spread like a shock ...
Lake freezes
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Residents of this village were surprised upon rising Thursday morning to find that the waters of Mirror Lake had closed from shore to shore. According to the record that has been kept by F. B. Guild for the past 30 years, the only time the lake has frozen over as early as Nov. ...
Horse shooting
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The chief excitement the early part of the week in Lake Placid was the shooting of a horse on McLenathen Avenue Sunday. The horse belonged to Patrick Foley of River Street and was shot by Alfred Beaney on his own premises. Mr. Beaney said the animal was dangerous. This is ...
Whiteface Highway
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Realization of the dreams of an Adirondack pioneer and retired North Country merchant, 89-year-old Marcellus A. Leonard of Saranac Lake, the ribbon of new macadam winding up the granite side of Whiteface Mountain is gradually approaching completion. Work on the road is ...