TUPPER LAKE - Whether you’re looking for information on the Lumberjacks, local government, or a particular regional family, your search has just been made easier. The Tupper Lake Free Press and Tupper Lake Herald are the newest newspapers available free of charge on-line.

These two newspapers, comprised of 45,000 pages spanning 94 years, have been added to the Northern New York Historical Newspapers website found at news.nnyln.net. The entire site currently consists of more than 1,082,000 pages from 31 newspapers.

The Northern New York Historical Newspapers are provided by the Northern New York Library Network based in Potsdam, to enhance access to the region’s unique local history.

Tupper Lake had two weekly newspapers during the 1930s, the Tupper Lake Free Press and the Tupper Lake Herald. They merged in 1937 to form the current paper.

The newspaper’s publisher, M. Dan McClennand, said, "Thank you very much for your diligence in doing this. This is something that people have been asking for. The region is richer for it."

Issues of the two newspapers found on the NNY Historical Newspapers website include the Tupper Lake Herald from 1911-1915, 1919-1922, 1924-1927, 1929-1930; the Tupper Lake Free Press from December 1931-September 1937, and the Tupper Lake Free Press and Tupper Lake Herald from September 1937-December 2005. The publisher's website, www.tlfreepress.com, has archives of the paper from 2007 to the present.

Be sure to check news.nnyln.net for a complete listing of on-line newspapers, which may be searched by county or individual paper.

The Northern New York Library Network is a regional multitype library agency primarily dedicated to cooperatively providing support and services necessary for all of its members to meet their individual goals. The Network serves libraries in the seven counties of Northern New York. The Network also hosts a number of computer classes and other training courses, many of which are open to the public. Its building in Potsdam has meeting rooms and a computer lab which are available to rent by the general public or business community. For more information on the Network, call 315-265-1119, or go to www.nnyln.org