Lookback: May 12, 2008

May 12, 2008 04:00 am

— 25 YEARS AGO -- 1983
Unless Congress adds to the Justice Department's 1983 supplemental budget, the proposed expansion of the federal prison at Ray Brook will be delayed. Plans had called for a minimum-security satellite.
Bar and restaurant owners ask the Clinton County Alcohol Beverage Control Board to push to 3 a.m. the legal cutoff of alcohol-beverage sales. The board had moved the sales cutoff from 4 a.m. to 2 a.m.
The State Police recapture four Polish nationals at Indian Lake who escaped last week from a medium-security federal prison at Ray Brook. The men were in some woods and were captured without resistance.
Downtown Plattsburgh property owners and merchants turn thumbs down on a proposal to return Margaret Street to two-way traffic. Eight business people address the Planning Board.
50 YEARS AGO -- 1958
The Canadian plastics firm, denied permission to open its Hamilton Street location by the Plattsburgh Zoning Board of Appeals, will move to Chazy. Neelak Plastics Co. of Montreal has contracted for the use of the former theater building in the hamlet.
Plans for Plattsburgh Air Force Base's $1,511,500 Capehart school are nearing completion on the drawing boards. It will be mid-July before the project is ready to go to bid.
Kindergarten will go on half-day sessions next fall in Plattsburgh schools. The sessions are deemed better for children and less expensive for the district.
Fire destroys a century-old home on the Merrill Road, about three miles northwest of Cadyville. The home was that of John Brunell and his son, Richard. It was a five-room structure, originally a log cabin to which additions had been made over the years.
75 YEARS AGO -- 1933
A stubborn fire burns over more than 75 acres of pine, birch and balsam at Little Square Pond near Saranac Lake before it was extinguished by more than 100 men.
A fire of undetermined origin destroys a large barn and garage combined at the Brookside Hotel in Morrisonville. It also damaged the east side of the hotel before it was extinguished.
After seven weeks of intensive work in the reorganization of the Ticonderoga National Bank, the license to reopen is granted and the bank commences normal operations.
Kiwanians of Malone add 3,000 white pine trees to their plantation on the Constable Road. They now have 15,000 trees on their property.
100 YEARS AGO -- 1908
Another boat load of the cannon which for years have guarded the entrance to the lake at Fort Montgomery near Rouses Point arrive in Plattsburgh and are shipped by rail to Philadelphia where they will be broken into scrap iron.
At a meeting of the shareholders of the new Ellenburgh Telephone Co., it was voted that the company's line should be constructed with the intention of connecting with the Clinton Telephone Co. at the earliest possible date.
Saranac Lake is going to run a $110 advertisement in a New York paper promoting the Adirondack metropolis and health resort.
A glove factory on a small scale is started in Malone and, if the business is successful, it will be enlarged.

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