''The Adirondack Daily Enterprise'' is a daily (6 days per week) newspaper published in

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. It also covers

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. The two areas also have in common the two-site

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History

This newspaper, along with

Lake Placid News ''Lake Placid News'' is "a weekly community newspaper" focused on Lake Placid, New York. History This newspaper, along with Adirondack Daily Enterprise, was purchased by William M. Doolittle Jr. in 1970. Other newspapers, including ''The New Yo ...

, was purchased by William M. Doolittle Jr. in 1970. Nearly fifty years later researchers uncovered that the newspaper, which "has trumpeted 'since 1894' for a generation in its masthead," originated in 1895. Moreover, it was "from the consolidation of two papers" (one named Adirondack Pioneer, the other Saranac Lake Enterprise). ''The

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'' includes reports from ''Adirondack Daily Enterprise''. Other newspapers, including ''

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'', pick up some of their scoops and stories. The newspaper has a history of activism in local matters. They opposed the renaming of a major regional college; their efforts "collected more than 3,200 signatures asking the college not to change its name."

Controversy

They "published a confidential salary list" including elected officials who "are also working for the Olympic committee and getting paid for it." The town clerk, with 24 years of service to his community, said that "elected officials should not 'serve two masters.'"

References

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