Lake Placid a city? The Lake Placid Village Board Monday night named a five-man committee to look into the ramifications of establishing a city government to replace the present village organization. The move has been under consideration by the board for the past few months as a means of solving their financial problems. Mayor Robert Peacock said at a recent board meeting that the village has reached a point where it must look for an additional source of money beyond real estate taxes. The advantage of forming a city is that they could immediately establish a sales tax as a means of income.
THINK SPRING â photo from 1977
Let me tell you, 72 years ago there was a lot of competition for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. Never mind about the Plattsburgh and Malone newspapers that were on the newsstands in our three mountain villages, but there was also the Syracuse Post-Standard, with a full-time correspondent stationed in Saranac Lake, and the Syracuse Herald Tribune. No television back then it did exist, but not for the working man. Radios, newspapers and gossip kept the public informed and did a helluva good job of it. So again, researching for news in my vast filing system … what falls off the shelf but a pristine copy of the Syracuse Post-Standard from 1948. Alongside the paper’s logo at the top of a special section in big letters read: Tupper Lake, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Malone. So let’s see what kind of coverage resulted.