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History of the Saranac Lake Fire Department (part 2) | News, Sports, Jobs

hjriley@roadrunner.com
Left to right or center to left ... eh, Iâm not sure. But that is my friend Mike Boon third from the right ... er, ah, maybe fourth from the left? The men and women proudly serving our community today as members of the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department under Chief Brendan Keough are Sara Ashley, Andrea Boon, Michael Boon, Dennis Bradley, Hannah Bradley, Logan Branch, Daryl Brier, Frank Brier, Mary A. Brown, Devin Cowen (driver), Cory Culver, John Derby, Chuck Dobson, Tim Donaldson, Justin Fletcher, Christine Fontana, Dominic Fontana, Garrett Foster (driver), Robert Girard, Julie Harjung, Gifford Hosler, Nate Jones, Uriah Kiser, Mike Knapp, Garrett Krasher, Cody LaPage, Bill Madden, Abigail Martelle, Andy J. McGill, Ken J. McLaughlin, Bob Nadon, Douglass Peck, Kent Robinson, Cassidy Rose, Ryan Schneider, Ryan Siddell (driver), Hawley Snyder (driver), Brady Stewart, Eva Stinson, Jim Stinson, Casey Taylor, Diane Tkach, Keegan Tyler, Mark Villa, David Warner, Shawn White, Edmund Woodard Jr., Andrew Wright, Rick Yorkey (driver) and Debbie Zerrahn. (Photo from 2015)

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Saranac Lake Red Devils — a big deal in bobsledding | News, Sports, Jobs

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The Saranac Lake Red Devils Bobsled Club was a big, friendly, boisterous group of fellows who used to hold their meetings at the Veterans Club on Broadway.
I happened to be going by the club on a couple of occasions when the guys were holding a meeting, and one could hear the “discussions” out on the street. They had more members than any club in the North Country.
The racing sleds can now be “weighted” to the legal limit, but back then the four-man bobs were manned by big guys who, together, would weigh as close to the limit as possible without being disqualified.

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News of the Tri-Lakes, Sept. 2, 1948 | News, Sports, Jobs - Adirondack Daily Enterprise

THINK SPRING â photo from 1977
Let me tell you, 72 years ago there was a lot of competition for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. Never mind about the Plattsburgh and Malone newspapers that were on the newsstands in our three mountain villages, but there was also the Syracuse Post-Standard, with a full-time correspondent stationed in Saranac Lake, and the Syracuse Herald Tribune.
No television back then — it did exist, but not for the working man. Radios, newspapers and gossip kept the public informed — and did a helluva good job of it.
So again, researching for news in my vast filing system … what falls off the shelf but a pristine copy of the Syracuse Post-Standard from 1948. Alongside the paper’s logo at the top of a special section in big letters read: Tupper Lake, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Malone. So let’s see what kind of coverage resulted.

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Follow-up to big snowstorm | News, Sports, Jobs - Adirondack Daily Enterprise

Following are some excerpts from 1925:
“Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Keet, of McComb Street are expecting to leave tomorrow morning for Schuyler Falls having been called there by the death of Mr. Keet’s brother, Elmer E. Keet, who died at his home there suddenly yesterday morning. Death was said to be due to heart trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Keet attempted to leave Saranac Lake this morning but were unable to do so on account of the delayed train service following the snow storm.”
“Fred Tatra, of Malone, is spending several days this week in Saranac Lake attending the horse races on the Ampersand Bay track. Also among those who are here in connection with the horse races are E. G. Mason and S. E. Humphrey and Harry Bachelor of Malone staying at the Riverside Inn; Willard Boyce, A. Keese, Charles Amlott all of Saranac Inn; Paul Stevens and Norman Murphy of Lake Placid; John Dillon and W. J. Dilling of New Haven, Conn., staying at the St. Regis Hotel; Frank E. Denet and H. H. Haile of Tupper Lake; A. B. Hickok of Bloomingdale; Isaac (Ike) Stearns of Gabriels and J. Davidson of Utica staying at the Grand Union Hotel [located about where Stewart’s is today].”

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I am still in January 1925 | News, Sports, Jobs - Adirondack Daily Enterprise

You know what Else?
Maybe ‘fascinated’ is not the correct word for what I feel when reading these old newspapers… maybe nostalgia or maybe I just love old newspapers and magazines. I have a collection of Life magazines from the 1940’s — price 10c.
This copy of The Enterprise from 95 years ago, for instance, quoting the Saranac Lake Chief of Police Frank E. Sheldon about the weather on the day of the parade of the first Winter Carnival in 1898. For me it was like talking to him.
I think it is so sad that newspapers are disappearing at an alarming rate. Will there be any method for one to describe 95 years from now what was happening here in 2020? Will anyone care? Will someone still have a video on their cell phone, a snippet of some television story or perhaps a search of computer archives to tell the story? I doubt it.

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