75 Years Ago

TICONDEROGA

Control Admissions At Local Hospital

Due to a reduced staff and in line with a nation-wide problem resulting from an insufficient number of available nurses, officials of the Moses Ludington H... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

TICONDEROGA

Process For Elimination Of Mill 'Fog' Here Will Be In Operation This Summer

Elimination of the "fog" which settles over Ticonderoga as the result of operations in the recovery plant of the Int... Continue reading

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75 Years Ago

TICONDEROGA

Merchants Here Vote For Meter Parking System

Ticonderoga merchants and business men have gone on record by a vote of 53 to 11 to recommend installation of a meter parking system in the bus... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

ESSEX COUNTY

Ask Bids On County Highway Project

Proposals for the reconstruction of eight and a half miles of roadway between Westport and Wadhams Mills, Wadhams Mills and Whallonsburg and Essex will... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

WHITEFACE MOUNTAIN

DEVELOPMENT OF SKI CENTER URGED BY SUPERVISORS

A resolution urging the Whiteface Mountain Authority to expedite the work on the Whiteface Mountain development, and a notificatio... Continue reading

Ever get the opportunity to visit the Adirondack Mountains National Park? Now, this is not to be confused with the New York State Adirondack Park.

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75 Years Ago

TAHAWUS

Trails On Tahawus Property  Opened To Public By Company

Opening of three new trails on the National Lead Company prop... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

TICONDEROGA

Experiments In Television Reception In Ticonderoga Prove 'Highly Satisfactory'

Television reception in Ticonderoga has been definitely established as "highly satisfactory," a development w... Continue reading

It is said that a picture is worth 1000 words. There’s a photograph in the Adirondack History Museum of a mustachioed man in his 20s bedecked in a suit of work clothes with handkerchief and watch... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

NEWCOMB

Proposed Road Seen Nearer By New Agreement

The National Lead Company, operator of the huge McIntyre development in the production of titanium and ilmenite, has granted a right of way over its... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

PORT HENRY

Asphalt Mixing Plant Underway At Port Henry

In addition to the large crushing and screening plant used for processing iron ore tailings, which are procured from the mining operations of Republi... Continue reading

In the September 21, 1950 edition of the Adirondack Record-Post recounted the story of the wayward coach.

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75 Years Ago

LAKE PLACID

RONDEAU, COLD RIVER HERMIT, AIMS TO BECOME BONA FIDE PILOT

Strange though it seems, Noah John Rondeau, the Adirondack hermit who for years "holed up" by himself in a homemade tee-pee in the Co... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

LAKE PLACID

MED. BOARD FAVORS A NEW HOSPITAL

The following resolution was adopted at the monthly meeting of the Medical Board of the Lake Placid General Hospital, held January 6, 1948. "Resolve the Me... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

WILMINGTON

Whiteface Ski Project Delayed by Shortages

Completion of the Whiteface Mountain ski project has been delayed indefinitely by a shortage of materials and equipment, Conservation Commissioner... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

TICONDEROGA

A Suggestion

Following the first snowfall of the season, The Sentinel received complaints from local residents regarding snow-clogged crosswalks near curbs. We were informed that more local pe... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

ELIZABETHTOWN

ETOWN PRESENTED WITH PROPERTY TO AID RECREATION

Chris Kringle made an early visit to the Village of Elizabethtown when its Mayor, Lee Phinney, and trustees Walter Shovan and William D. Dento... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

AID FIRE FIGHTER! DON'T CALL CENTRAL

Because of the heavy number of phone calls at the local telephone office inquiring as to the whereabout of fires, residents are urged by the volunteer fire department to ref... Continue reading

75 Years Ago

LAKE PLACID

Dr. Ring, chairman of the Lake Placid Hospital Board, and unofficially representing the general view of the local physicians and surgeons, has submitted a study of the type of hospital Lake Placid needs... Continue reading