25 YEARS AGO -- 1983

Following a lopsided vote by voters of the Northern Adirondack Central School District, a prison will be established at the former Altona Elementary School building. The vote in favor was 633-29.

A frenzied sandbagging effort is undertaken at Lakeside Apartments in Plattsburgh in an effort to prevent the rising lake and Scomotion Creek waters from entering ground-level apartments.

The 338 acres of land including Fort Montgomery, known locally as "The Commons," is purchased by a Montreal businessman for industrial and commercial development. Victor and Julia Podd have purchased the Rouses Point property.

The Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System will have to pay twice as much for accounting services provided by Clinton County. The system will now have to pay $7,200 for various accounting services.

50 YEARS AGO -- 1958

Fire destroys the Bouyea Building at the corner of Cornelia and Margaret streets in Plattsburgh housing Connor's Pharmacy, Bennett's Appliance Shop and three lawyers' offices. Seven firemen are injured. The loss is estimated at $200,000.

Talk of a strike at Plattsburgh Air Force Base persists. It was accompanied by union denials that any work stoppage is imminent.

An expansion and renovation plan costing $161,000 is unveiled by Mount Assumption Institute. New construction will house a recreation hall and music, reading and hobby rooms.

Plattsburgh's new filtration plant and two new filters pass post-construction inspection. The city has paid $132,028.43 or 90 percent toward the $146,689.25 total cost of the project.

75 YEARS AGO -- 1933

Operation of steamers on picturesque Lake George is insured through the announcement by the New York State Department of State that a charter has been granted to the Lake George Transportation Co. which is to take over the line of steamboats formerly operated by a subsidiary of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Co.

At a meeting of the Board of Education of the AuSable Forks Rural School District, reduction of the salaries of the members of the faculty and other savings to the district of over $10,000 was made in the budget for the school year 1933-34. The total budget is about $97,000 with $74,000 provided by state aid.

Hospitalization of ex-servicemen in the Village of Saranac Lake will be discontinued by June 30. All will be transferred to other centers. This means an annual loss of income in the village of more than $300,000.

Practically the whole force has returned to work at the N.Y. and Penn Paper Mill in Willsboro which had been closed for the past months.