25 YEARS AGO — 1983

* More than $2.1 million in job training and summer youth-employment funding will become available in October to Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Hamilton counties under the federal Job Training Partnership Act.

* William LaJoy is convicted of two felonies and a misdemeanor in the death June 2, 1982, of Karen Joan Fleury, 23, of Plattsburgh. He was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of a personal-injury accident and driving while intoxicated.

* A groom at the Lake Placid I Love New York Horse Show is charged with three felonies for the intentional shooting of a show horse valued at between $120,000 and $150,000 because the animal annoyed him. The horse, Rain Forest, had to be destroyed because of its injury.

* Essex County’s unemployment rate makes its first seasonal decline of the year in May, dropping from a 1983 high of 17.1 percent in April to 13.6 percent.

50 YEARS AGO — 1958

* “Any further delay in the ironworkers strike could stop almost all construction in Clinton County.” These are the words of a spokesman for the J.J. Harvey Co., a contractor on several projects throughout the area.

* The Plattsburgh Board of Education is told that if the ironworkers strike continues, completion of Plattsburgh’s new schools could be considerably delayed. If the strike is settled soon, schools could be completed on time.

* Contract negotiations between J. and J. Rogers Co. of AuSable Forks and the union remain at a stand still. The union turned down the company’s latest offer earlier this week.

* Four area transmission systems for St. Lawrence Seaway power are in various stages of completion. They include a system to carry power to Plattsburgh Municipal Lighting Department.

75 YEARS AGO — 1933

* The little village of Standish where flames ceased to roar in the blast furnaces in March 1932 will thrill again to the merry roar of the huge furnaces, according to the Chateaugay Ore and Iron Co., which controls the furnaces there.

* Good news, perhaps the best of the year, announces the opening of the big International Paper Co.’s mill at Piercefield. The company has signed up 150 men to go to work.

* Charged with second-degree arson in setting a fire in a theater in competition with his, Charles V. Dery, a former president of the Village of Port Henry and one of its most prominent citizens, is being held on $1,000 bail for action of the Essex County grand jury.