25 YEARS AGO -- 1983

The Florida State Attorney General's Office charges Lake Placid Club Resort owner John R. Swaim with "miss use of funds" secured by him and his corporations (First Federal Mortgage Corp. and First Federal Corp.) from the State Bank of Barnum, Minn.

State Sen. Ronald B. Stafford (R-Plattsburgh) says New York state will appropriate about $2.5 million from general tax revenues to keep the proposed Rouses Point bridge toll-free.

Lake Placid residents stream to the polls and crush, 964-56, a proposal to dissolve the village government. The overwhelming "no" vote (about 95 percent of the total) ends nearly two years of discussion and planning regarding possible dissolution.

Roadblocks are set up and house-to-house searches conducted as a manhunt continues for an inmate who walked away from the state minimum-security Camp Gabriels. The escape is the first for the prison in the Franklin County Town of Brighton.

50 YEARS AGO -- 1958

A bomb threat grounds an Eastern Airlines plane at Plattsburgh Municipal Airport more than an hour. Also, Eastern planes were grounded at Albany and LaGuardia in New York City, where the threat was called in.

A legislative hearing on the sales tax, originally scheduled by the Clinton County Board of Supervisors for March 19, is postponed at least 30 days. At issue is a proposed 2 percent sales tax. Opinions, both pro and con, have been heated.

75 YEARS AGO -- 1933

Fire, believed caused by a cigarette tossed carelessly into a wastebasket after a basketball game, sweeps the interior of Ticonderoga's $800,000 high school, causing $100,000 damage. The brick school was built three years ago.

The Ticonderoga Board of Education engages Tooker and Marsh of New York City, the architects who designed the high school when it was erected, as architects for the reconstruction of the building which was damaged by fire earlier this week.

A fleet of snowplows bucks snowdrifts in some places as high as 20 feet to get the highway between Ellenburg and Chateaugay open. The road had been closed the better part of four days. Also, about 80 children who attend Ellenburg Depot High School were able to get home after being stranded for two nights.

Four days after it was opened, the road between Plattsburgh and Malone through the Ellenburg Cut is blocked again by huge snowdrifts. Also, many cars and trucks are stranded.

100 YEARS AGO -- 1908

Noah Bluto and Jerry Terrier are killed when their sleigh is hit by the Montreal Express at a grade crossing of the New York Central Railroad in Malone.