25 YEARS AGO — 1984
  The 98 NYCO employees who struck in Willsboro May 31 rather than accept a contract they felt was unfair are back at work. They got a bigger wage increase and resolved a pension dispute.

  A vast flotilla of more than 7,000 fishermen will dot the waters of Lake Champlain as anglers in increasing numbers get hooked on the Lake Champlain International Fishing Derby.

  The City Planning Board again gives its approval to an apartment project on Urban Renewal property when developer J. David Dame returns with a changed proposal. This time the plan calls for 37 units instead of 38 for the site on north Margaret Street.

  The breakwater built to protect Plattsburgh harbor is sinking. Funds to raise the aid to navigation are lacking. Funds will be lacking for the foreseeable future.

50 YEARS AGO — 1959
  Dannemora Mayor William E. Donohue issues a plea to Clinton Prison officials and the Clinton County Health Department over the village's increasing rat menace. The mayor says the rats are leaving the prison's dump in the middle of the village because the prison covered part of it with earth. Exterminators are called in and halt the problem.

  Alert crews at Plattsburgh Air Force Base will begin living almost under the shadow of their planes by Sept. 1. That's the target date for the completion and occupancy of the base's big $931,000 alert facility building.

  Blacktop paving of the Plattsburgh Bypass section of the Northway is expected to begin next week. Rains have slowed the operation, but the bypass will be completed a year ahead of schedule.

  Mayor John J. Tyrell says installation of sewers on Prospect Avenue may be done after the Tom Miller Road sewer line is constructed. A great deal depends on how successful the city is in negotiating with the Town of Plattsburgh over the Tom Miller Road line.

75 YEARS AGO — 1934
  A break in the recently completed Setting Pole Rapids Dam in Tupper Lake is being investigated to determine whether the wall was dynamited or the break resulted from a weakened section.

  Under the direction of the Rev. Thomas Lester Graham, the nationally known Camp Lavelle, formerly located at Monroe, will open the 1934 season in its new, larger quarters in the pine woods on the shores of Lake Champlain at the Catholic Summer School of America at Cliff Haven.

  Franklin County's TERA payroll last week amounted to $9,465.05. Of this sum, $1,965.90 was in Malone Village.

  Franklin County farmers are reviving the hop industry, development of which was a source of large revenue here a few years ago.

100 YEARS AGO — 1909
  Never in its history has the Lozier Motor Co. been so rushed with work as at the present time. A force of about 400 skilled mechanics are steadily employed and an average of six large and three small cars are turned out weekly.

  The Plattsburgh Light, Heat and Power Co. has just made a large investment in new machinery, the installation of which will greatly increase their incandescent light capacity and enable them to easily meet any demand made upon them for lights.

  That Ellenburg is the greatest milk and butter producing town in Clinton County is a fact which is beyond question and is the main source of income for that town. Now being shipped from Ellenburg to New York City daily is 1,800 quarts of milk.

  President William H. Taft officially accepts an invitation to the Tercentenary. His official headquarters will be Hotel Champlain.

— Compiled by Contributing Writer Sue Botsford, who can be reached at 834-7201 or botsford@westelcom.com