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 ...

When the Berkeley Hotel burned down, it seemed to me as through we lost half of Saranac Lake’s business section. As a kid living here in the early 1940s, I have fond memories of that section of Broadway. Those fond memories stretched forward to my days at the Enterprise, which was then ...

An Enterprise story by Evelyn Outcalt began: “Compared with the problems encountered in 1971, the 1972 Diamond Jubilee Winter Carnival was a breeze. Or, so it seemed to the public. The carnival committee, headed by Bill Grogan and Margaret Haig, may have thought otherwise.” (This committee ...

I walked into my office at 8 a.m., Feb. 3, 1973, 52 years ago, to begin a routine day as editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. My boss, Bill Doolittle, owner and publisher of the Enterprise greets me with, “Howard, I am going to send you to Switzerland with Mayor Robert Peacock to ...

The lead story on the front page of Jan. 6, 2000 — under the headline “SPECIAL REPORT — BIG TUPPER CLOSES”; Big Tupper, where Senator Bobby Kennedy skied many times (and where I had my picture taken with him) — stunned the community, although the residents knew it was coming. I guess ...