"My involvement and interaction has been both positive and negative over the past five years," Nancy Monette, resident of three Draper Street for the past thirty-one years, said. "When you live in a normal neighborhood with real families, things are usually wonderful and there is a spirit of neighborliness and friendship. When students began moving in, much of that was lost."
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"The passport law might be a good thing. I feel safer knowing what is coming and going across the border," says Theresa Ero.

Ero has been crossing the border at least twice a year for the last twenty years to visit her dentist. The Champlain, New York resident, who doesn’t already have a passport, said that she would eventually get one; she needs one to keep seeing her dentist.
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In 1819, Plattsburgh founder Zephaniah Platt became a defendant in a case still being argued today. He was indicted on three counts of nuisance after he allowed the building of a dam on the Saranac River.

The first count stated that salmon passed from Lake Champlain and up the Saranac for a distance of 20 miles. The erection of the dam was an unlawful obstruction of the course and passage of the fish.
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