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25 YEARS AGO — 1984
  A Crown Point woman is rescued from her fire-destroyed home by a quick-thinking passerby who saved her life. Isabelle Blaise, 39, of Factoryville Road was rushed to Moses-Ludington Hospital after Mark Pierce pulled her unconscious from her burning trailer where she lived alone.

  The absence of liners in Clinton County landfills insures that leachate is contaminating the state's resources, a Department of Environmental Conservation official tells county legislators. DEC wants liners installed.

  The North Elba Town Board becomes the first municipality to agree to work with grassroots organizations toward bringing the Olympic Winter Games back to Lake Placid in 1992.

  Less than 24 hours before the Mayor's Cup Race, only 75 skippers have entered. This is far below the 155 last year and the 200 in 1982.

50 YEARS AGO — 1959
  The plant of the Quick Flame Bottled Gas Corp. at South Junction, damaged by fire and explosions on June 28, will be fully restored by the weekend. Damage was estimated at $25,000.

  Charges against three women arrested under the old City of Plattsburgh short-shorts law will be dismissed. The Common Council adopted a new law prohibiting any part of the body between the armpits and half way between the hips and knees from being bare.

  Delivery of the new 48-cell Clinton County Jail is expected by the middle of July. After delivery the new structure will have to pass inspection by the State Department of Corrections.

  There is a distinct possibility there will be a gas war in the city in the near future. Competition among the 48 stations has reached a point where owners are staging promotional wars.

75 YEARS AGO — 1934
  Approximately 460 young men from all sections of the Second Corps area comprising this year's Citizens Military Training Camp arrive at Plattsburgh Barracks for 30 days of training.

  One man was drowned and three others rescued when a motor boat in which they were occupants caught fire on Lower Saranac Lake. Lynwood Coon, 35, of Potsdam was drowned when he jumped into the water to escape the flames.

  Fire destroys a 14-room camp of Dr. S. Politizer on the peninsula in Lake Placid. For a time the fire threatened the forest, but a company of Civilian Conservation Corps men were brought in and worked until the danger was averted.

  The first public concert of the recently established Adirondack Music Camp at Chateaugay Lake is given. The event was the first in a series of eight concerts to be given this summer.

100 YEARS AGO — 1909
  A horde of 20,000 people gather at Fort Ticonderoga to honor and laude the name of Champlain and to pay respects to modern heros. The event was attended by President William Howard Taft and the governors of New York and Vermont. Taft then went on to Plattsburgh, where he is staying at the Hotel Champlain.

  Ten thousand spectators gather at the natural amphitheater afforded by the hills near the ruins of the historic forts at Crown Point to celebrate the achievements of Samuel de Champlain three centuries ago.

  Northern New York never witnessed a pageant of such imposing beauty nor heard addresses of such excellence as those given in Plattsburgh in connection with the Champlain Tercentenary.

  The Tercentenary Celebration is brought to a successful close when Rouses Point does itself proud with its entertainment of thousands who gathered at that village to witness the water races.

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