25 YEARS AGO -- 1983

Another black cloud hangs over the Lake Placid Club Resort following confirmation its owner, John R. Swaim, has been arrested on a charge of grand theft, and a confirmation that employees of the resort were unable to cash their paychecks.

It would be illegal for the Essex County Board of Supervisors to reduce District Attorney John McDonald's job to part-time during the middle of his term, according to the county attorney. McDonald is in the second year of a four-year term.

Development of a 30-acre tract near Fort Ticonderoga by a New Jersey man for a $5 million resort complex would destroy artifacts at the site, according to the Fort Ticonderoga Association.

Essex Town residents, at a public hearing, resoundingly veto plans to build a new municipal complex. The projected cost was $300,000-plus.

50 YEARS AGO -- 1958

Bids are opened on a proposed $1 million Champlain Central School. Apparent low bidders on general construction, plumbing, heating and ventilation and electrical work totaled $1,013,344.

The Common Council takes a Police Benevolent Association request for a 10-percent pay raise for all regular police officers. The increased cost of living was cited as a reason for the raises.

The new $136,000 Elizabethtown Army Reserve Training Center will be dedicated April 13. The 100-man training center is located on a 5-acre plot on the southwest corner of Water and Cross streets.

It is unclear whether Clintonville will have a new church hall to replace to one that collapsed over the weekend. The Rev. Gerald Seguin, pastor of St. Catherine's Church, said the decision will be up to the bishop.

75 YEARS AGO -- 1933

Thirty inches of snow falls in Malone. Dozens of automobiles stalled on the highways were nearly covered by snow. A strong wind piled snow to a depth of several feet.

At a meeting of the membership of the Plattsburgh Chamber of Commerce, the proposition of a new vehicular bridge at Rouses Point as an interstate project was endorsed.

Toll receipts for the year 1932 at the Lake Champlain Bridge at Crown Point amounted to $60,840, representing a decrease of 18 percent from the previous year.

Recommendation of a new jail at Malone was made in the report of the state inspector who recently conducted an inspection of the condition.