25 YEARS AGO — 1984
  An attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union and a student leader at Plattsburgh State agree that announced plans by City Police to enter private parties to check individual's identities — to curb drinking and reduce noise — are ridiculous.

  Clinton County will enact its own local law and offer about 65 government workers the chance to retire three years early. But according to a study, only 25 to 30 employees will take advantage of the plan.

  Vermont Transit adds three new bus runs between Plattsburgh and Burlington. The service to Plattsburgh was expanded because the company's limited runs to Plattsburgh, begun in April, have attracted large numbers of riders.

  The Town of Dannemora will retire the final debt amounting to $16,482, and the town's new medical center on Clark Street will be fully paid for.

50 YEARS AGO — 1959
  A four-hour ordeal in the air ends for 32 people aboard an Eastern Airlines plane when the plane, its landing gear crippled, makes a successful belly landing at Plattsburgh Air Force Base. There appears to be no injuries.

  The first step in the first-degree murder trial of Sgt. Ernest Dixon — scheduled to open Oct. 5 — is taken with the drawing of a trial panel of 200 members. Dixon, 35, is accused of beating to death his 33-year-old wife, Audrey Vivian, Feb. 28.

  The Plattsburgh Common Council authorizes advertising for bids to demolish the condemned building at 105-107 Cornelia St. The owners were given 10 days Sept. 4 to get rid of the fire-gutted structure, but have done nothing.

  The fourth case of polio in Clinton County leaves a man in critical condition. One person has died of the disease.

75 YEARS AGO — 1934
  Approximately 8,000 cars, hailing from nearly every state in the country, Canada and Mexico, have been carried this year across the lake between Burlington and Port Kent by the steamer Chateaugay. The numbers represent a 30-percent increase.

  Ralph Fournier, 22, of Keeseville is arrested when he is found cowering in the bushes after an attempt to hold up the Atlantic and Pacific store in Lake Placid.

  Tupper Lake High School opens this week after a two-week delay due to the moving of the school building to its new location to make room for construction of a new building.

  A total of 1,678 students are registered in the Saranac Lake public and parochial schools; of that number, 282 are in St. Bernard's School.

100 YEARS AGO — 1909
  Peter Lapan's hotel at Ellenburg Depot is destroyed by fire. The schoolhouse in the village was also damaged by fire, both conflagrations having started at the same time. Both fires were incendiary in origin.

  The Lozier car added new laurels to the big list of victories by winning the 300-mile race at San Francisco for stock cars. The Lozier finished 41 miles ahead of a large field of high-priced cars.

  Postmaster Weed on Ticonderoga receives an order from the Post Office Department discontinuing the Streetroad Post Office after Sept. 30. Beginning Oct. 1, the patrons from the Streetroad office will be served by a rural delivery route from Ticonderoga.

  One-hundred-eleven teams are engaged in drawing the ore from Sanford mine, Newcomb, to North Creek that is being used in thorough furnace tests. About 600 tons remain to be drawn.

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