Back in the 1940s, when my Mom needed a few things at the grocery store, I would just scoot up from our home at 5 Pine St. to Mullen’s Cash Store, located at the corner of Bloomingdale Avenue and Church Street Extension. It was owned and operated by Percy Mullen and I believe it was his ...

Wondering how I would lead into a story of a mistake I made in my column of Saturday, March 8 about Legs Diamond, Bert LaFountain, et al, a letter arrives from my friend Mark Wilson, solving that problem. The mistake was my recalling a much-told story that Gabriels speakeasy owner Bert ...

Trudeau was the lead story in this tattered copy of The Enterprise about the meeting of the Adirondack Cottage Board of Trustees held in New York City. - Give my regards to Broadway (The Enterprise, September 1976) - Excerpts from a story by Bill McLaughlin: ''Saranac Lake in 1909 was ...

There have been many stories over the years about the visits to Saranac Lake of John Moran aka Legs Diamond, one of the leading men of the gangster world. My colleague at the Enterprise, Bill McLaughlin, could capture the nuance of those secret visits better than anyone. His brother Eddie, ...

We all know well the events and results of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. It is fun for me recalling the little things that happened along the way and behind the scenes. Traveling with the Olympic Bid team as a reporter, we were all on the train in Zurich, Switzerland ...

I had the best job anyone could ask for during the 1980 Olympics. I reported only to Rev. J. Bernard Fell, president of the Lake Placid Olympic Games. One of the nicest guys I ever met, I knew him when he was a Lake Placid police officer. Others colleagues were in various departments with ...