OGDENSBURG — Sandra J. Grausam said her waterfront camp, which is below the water line on McDonald Road, was built before the St. Lawrence Seaway opened in the 1950s.

Even though the camp has been there for decades, Ms. Grausam said this is the first year it has flooded.

Ms. Grausam was one of several area residents on Friday who visited the emergency response mobile command center temporarily positioned at the Dobisky Center, 100 Riverside Ave., to get questions answered, apply for permits and potentially file insurance claims related to high water damage along the St. Lawrence River.

Ms. Grausam scrolled through pictures of the flooded camp on her cell phone and showed them to state Department of Environmental Conservation Regional Director Judy Drabicki and Regional Habitat Manager Christopher J. Balk.

“You can see where all the debris came up,” Ms. Grausam said to Ms. Drabicki and Mr. Balk, while pointing to a picture. “We have a lot of clean up to do.”

Last week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared a state of emergency in Cayuga, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Oswego, St. Lawrence and Wayne counties to expedite repair to affected structures and construction of shoreline stabilization projects due to elevated water levels.

The mobile center in Ogdensburg was set up a couple of times throughout last week to assist St. Lawrence County residents who had insurance questions and claims related to damage related to high water along the St. Lawrence River. DEC officials were on hand to provide on-site permitting and work with property owners to address erosion, offer technical guidance and provide on-site emergency permitting to residents.

“Our job is to protect the environment,” Ms. Drabicki said, “so what we do in our permitting is to try to let people do some of what they want to do but also in the context of protecting the environment.”

Many residents’ properties are eroding because the high water levels are consistently washing over land it usually can’t reach, according to Mr. Balk.

“People are losing many feet of their yard because it’s eroding, turning into muddy water and floating down the river,” Mr. Balk said. “This permit addresses temporary stabilization efforts needed to stop that from happening, and also to repair and replace structures that have been damaged by the water.”

Mr. Balk said sometimes the turn-around process for permit application approval — which can take up to six to eight weeks under normal circumstances — is within one day.

“People are walking out of this trailer with a permit in their hand to do the work,” Mr. Balk said.

Mr. Balk said nine permit applications have been filled out and seven permits have been issued. He expects that number to rise in the coming weeks, due to a large number of affected homes being seasonal camps or vacation-type dwellings.

“I’d be willing to bet some of the homes that have been affected haven’t even been visited yet,” Mr. Balk said.

Next week, several DEC employees, including Mr. Balk and Ms. Drabicki, are going to help the Chaumont Fire Department by filling additional sandbags needed for property protection.

“It’s about your neighbors and taking care of them,” Ms. Drabicki said. “That’s what I love about the north country.”

A Lake Ontario Flood Assistance Hotline has been created. Residents can call the hotline for the latest flooding forecast, help with flood mitigation measures including sandbags or for technical assistance regarding on-site repairs.

CANTON — St. Lawrence University announced Saturday it has received the largest gift in the University’s 161-year history.

Sarah E. Johnson ’82 and her parents, Charles and Ann Johnson, members of the Laurentian circle of leaders, have committed an unrestricted gift to the university of $25 million.

The previous largest gift was for $10 million from Sarah Johnson for the Johnson Hall of Science. The hall, which was the first LEED Gold-certified science building in New York state, was dedicated in October 2007.

Sarah serves as a trustee as well as a co-chair of the university’s forthcoming fundraising campaign. Charles and Ann are connected to St. Lawrence as parents and grandparents.

“This extraordinary vote of confidence is a life-altering gift for St. Lawrence in its proportions and intentions and will allow the University to fund myriad priorities in people and programs,” St. Lawrence University President William L. Fox said in a release. “The Johnsons believe in what makes this place so special, and their exceptionally generous giving helps advance St. Lawrence for today’s students and the generations to come.”

Charles Johnson is the retired chairman and president of Franklin Resources/Franklin Templeton Investments. Ann Johnson is a retired psychiatrist. Together with their daughter Sarah, a film producer and St. Lawrence alumna, the Johnson Family is not only devoted to St. Lawrence but also is recognized as leading American philanthropists in arts and education.

BALTIMORE — In bucolic Lancaster County, Pa., the Amish people grow their own tobacco. In keeping with traditional gender roles, the men smoke the tobacco in cigars, pipes or cigarettes, while the women largely tend not to smoke.

A recent study of the Old Order Amish community by University of Maryland researchers has nonetheless found them to be just as susceptible to a scourge of modern-day life: health problems related to exposure to secondhand smoke.

It turned out that the male smokers were potentially harming the women by smoking.

The study by Robert M. Reed, a University of Maryland associate professor of medicine and the lead researcher, found that exposure to even low amounts of secondhand smoke damaged the lung function of Amish family members, particularly the non-smoking women, in a small but measurable way.

Reed said Amish men typically gather on Sundays to smoke, so he wasn’t sure he would find anything noteworthy because the amount of secondhand smoke Amish families were exposed to was likely very low.

“It was surprising that we found anything at all, and I think that this really tells us how detrimental secondhand smoke can be,” said Reed, who is also a pulmonary and critical care specialist at the University of Maryland Medical Center. “I think there are some open questions of the certainty to which we can say that secondhand smoke exposure causes some things like obesity or diabetes, or a lower lung function. And I think our study tips the scale to make it more clear that those are also some of the ill effects.”

The study was published in the medical journal PLOS ONE in March.

The researchers examined data on a cross-section of 3,568 Amish who participated in three community surveys of cardiovascular health between 2001 and 2015, according to the University of Maryland Medical System. The data included tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure from family members.

Because the researchers had records of familial relations in the community, they were able to determine which people had a father, brother or husband who was a smoker and thus conclude that they had been exposed to secondhand smoke. The researchers also tested lung function and took blood samples.

The researchers did not have to account for potential smoke exposure in the womb since women in the Amish community generally do not smoke. About a third of Amish men in the study smoked, with 64 percent smoking cigars, 46 percent smoking cigarettes and 21 percent smoking pipes. Reed said cigar and pipes produce more noxious secondhand smoke than cigarettes.

Reed said the team used liaisons who work with the Amish community. Other medical researchers have studied the Amish because their lifestyles allow for scientists to control for fewer variables.

“There have been a lot of studies on the effects of secondhand smoking,” Reed said. “But a lot of those studies have been kind of difficult to tease out what’s a true affect of the smoking and what may be related to other factors that are associated with the behavior of smoking,” such as socioeconomic status.

The Amish, he said, are more physically active than the average American, they eat more fruits and vegetables, they all live in the country, and their diets are generally similar to each other.

Reed found that women who were exposed to secondhand smoke had a higher body mass index on average. Their LDL or “bad” cholesterol was higher, while their HDL or “good” cholesterol was lower. Their fasting glucose levels, an indicator of metabolic health, were also higher among those who had been exposed to secondhand smoke.

“I would not have expected to see such dramatic effects with these low exposures,” Braxton D. Mitchell, the study’s senior author and a professor of medicine, epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said in a prepared statement.

The researchers assigned each person a point for every nuclear family member they had that was a smoker, and the women with more family members who smoked had poorer metabolic health markers overall.

Men who were nonsmokers but who had been exposed to secondhand smoke also were more likely to be heavier, have higher LDL cholesterol and have higher fasting glucose readings. Reed found a reduction in lung function of about 2.7 percent for women who had been exposed to secondhand smoke.

Some 480,000 Americans die each year from smoking-related causes, with about 41,000 of those suffering from lung cancer and coronary heart disease related to secondhand smoke exposure, according to a 2014 report by the Office of the Surgeon General. Previous studies have established stroke, lung cancer and coronary heart disease as associated with secondhand smoke exposure.

Some 58 million people in the U.S. were exposed to secondhand smoke in 2012, the latest year for which data is available, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, although that number has been cut in half since 2000. Exposure was higher for children, black people, renters and those living in poverty.

“Although we know the dangers, there still are many people who are not protected from smoke,” said Brian King, deputy director of research translation for the CDC. “The finding from this study and other studies reinforce that secondhand smoke is bad, there’s no safe level of exposure and that even brief exposure can have immediate adverse impacts on your health.”

According to Reed, “The current iteration of the secondhand smoke report from the Surgeon General expresses some doubt as to whether certain things like lung function is worse in relation to secondhand smoke exposure. I think our study adds some clarity to that question, because we did find a small but detectable reduction in lung function.”

Kirsten Koehler, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said the study’s findings, while not groundbreaking, added to the body of knowledge about the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.

“I don’t know that it added much that was that new but it added a group of understudied people,” Koehler said. “It contributes to the evidence base for what we know about secondhand smoke.”

But Mark Geraci, the chair of medicine at Indiana University, said many people aren’t aware of how dangerous secondhand smoke is and that more research like Reed’s is needed to quantify it.

“I think most people would argue that smoking is bad for you, but actual data on secondhand smoke is still evolving,” Geraci said. “There are many individuals and groups that aren’t sure what the detrimental effects of secondhand smoke are. It’s difficult to quantify exposure to secondhand smoke. I think that is an area where there’s a tremendous need for experimentation.”

From our standpoint 66 million years later, it’s easy to assume the demise of the dinosaurs was an inevitability.

But an international team of researchers is making a radical argument for why that may not be the case: Had the asteroid that likely wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the planet a few minutes earlier or later, the scientists say, the fabled reptiles could still be walking the earth now.

That conclusion makes up one of the most intriguing revelations in “The Day the Dinosaurs Died,” a BBC Two documentary that was filmed across three continents during the past year before airing this week.

How is it possible dinosaurs could still be alive?

If the massive asteroid that smashed into present-day Yucatan hit the Atlantic Ocean or somewhere else, the scientists maintain, the rock would have avoided an area made up primarily of limestone and evaporated ocean sediments and rich in carbon dioxide, sulfur and deadly gypsum. Due to the earth’s rotation, even a minute or two could have significantly changed the outcome of the impact.

It was, for all intents and purposes, a kill shot for the giant reptiles roaming the planet.

“When the asteroid hits with the force of something like 10 billion Hiroshima explosions, all of that gets pumped up in the atmosphere, and it may have been really critical for the mass extinction that followed as it blocked out the sun,” Sean Gulick, a University of Texas professor who studies catastrophism in the geologic record, told The Washington Post. “A few minutes earlier or later and the asteroid would’ve hit the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean and not slammed into a big, volatile platform that was then vaporized as it spread upward and out.”

Known as the Chicxulub crater, the impact zone lies 24 miles off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The impact left in its wake a hole in the Earth 20 miles deep and 120 miles across, scientists say, a site that is now covered completely by 66 million years worth of solid rock and sediment.

To reach their shocking conclusion, the scientists drilled through that rock and into the site of impact crater more than 1,300 meters below the seafloor. Gulick, who appears in the BBC Two program, said drilling into the crater is something he’s been pushing for, with grant proposals and lobbying, for more than 15 years.

“The idea was a little outside of the box,” he said. “When scientists are seeking funding, most of the time people are going after some question about past climates or earthquakes or some very fundamental ocean earth science topic, but we were saying we wanted to drill into an impact crater, which has a different ring to it.”

“It just so happens that this particular crater had an extremely important role in the history of our planet,” he added.

Though many scientists say the impact of an asteroid caused many dinosaurs to vanish, the idea remains a widely accepted theory. Using seismic images that showed researchers where they could find the crater’s central impact zone, known as the “peak ring,” the scientists said they were looking for physical evidence to bolster the theory.

With that in mind, they had three different goals:

1. Better understanding physical processes that shape impact craters; 2. Investigating the different “kill mechanisms” in place, such as the type of material released into the atmosphere, that may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs; and 3. Studying the microbial life that moved into the subsurface in the wake of the impact.

Eight weeks of intensive drilling were required to collect more than 260 rock cores, which were extracted and taken to the University of Bremen in Germany for examination, according to BBC Two.

That analysis — requiring 800 meters of rock being split, tested and photographed — resulted in some extraordinarily detailed insights. The scientists believe they have proved that the asteroid that smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula was moving at 40,000 mph and instantly vaporized upon hitting the water.

It was, BBC Two notes, the equivalent of a grain of sand slamming into a bowling ball, but the impact was so powerful and hot that it turned the surrounding sea to steam and traveled miles into the earth’s crust. The rock that was pushed upward, the scientists found, formed “a tower higher than the Himalayas” before collapsing to “form a strange ring of peaks that exists today,” according to BBC Two.

All of it, the researchers found, took place in the space of 10 minutes.

“It’s an amazing oceanographic event, even more so because we see in the cores that life came back pretty quickly,” Gulick said. “We discovered that organisms started to evolve within the sea floor at the crater within a few tens of thousands of years — we know for certain by 30,000 years.”

What followed immediately after the impact was a scene reminiscent of a modern-day nuclear holocaust, mixed with profound natural disasters on a mind-boggling scale.

A radioactive fireball that reached 18,000 degrees scorched the Earth for 600 miles in every direction and unleashed the largest tsunami in history, Gulick said. A deadly vapor containing billions of tons of sulfates fanned out over the globe, blocking sunlight and lowering temperatures, while molten material from the crater rained down upon the Earth for thousands of miles in every direction, starting fires and turning the atmosphere into an oven, according to BBC Two.

Ben Garrod, an evolutionary biologist who appears in the program, said global temperatures plunged more than 50 degrees within days.

“This is where we get to the great irony of the story — because in the end it wasn’t the size of the asteroid, the scale of blast, or even its global reach that made dinosaurs extinct — it was where the impact happened,” Garrod said.

“In this cold, dark world, food ran out of the oceans within a week and shortly after on land,” he added. “With nothing to eat anywhere on the planet, the mighty dinosaurs stood little chance of survival.”

The dinosaurs’ sudden ending did have an upside, according to Alice Roberts, a professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham, who appears throughout the documentary.

“Just half a million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs and landscapes around the globe had filled with mammals of all shapes and sizes,” she said. “Chances are, if it wasn’t for that asteroid, we wouldn’t be here to tell the story today.”

The Armed Forces Day Parade hit the streets Saturday in Watertown.

POTSDAM — Before SUNY Potsdam graduates made their way across the stage on a breezy but sunny Saturday morning, Massena native Jim “Ace” Deshaies, a broadcast analyst for the Chicago Cubs and a former major league baseball pitcher, provided some motivating words to all during his keynote address.

Mr. Deshaies’s speech carried nostalgia when he asked the graduates to perform a simple mind exercise.

“Let your mind drift back through the years and conjure up images of all those classrooms, the classmates, the teachers. Think about all those hours poring over homework at the kitchen table, wishing you were anywhere but sitting at that table. All the exams, the projects, the term papers, SATs, ACTs — draining Red Bulls so you can pull an all-nighter before finals,” he said. “I can tell you this: you are ready.”

More than 800 undergraduate and graduate SUNY Potsdam students were awarded degrees.

During her commencement remarks, President Kristin G. Esterberg addressed the students and told them they attended SUNY Potsdam during a year of many firsts.

“All of you can proudly claim to be the first class to graduate in Potsdam’s third century,” she said. “But many of you participated in other firsts for SUNY Potsdam students: the first class to perform in the Performing Arts Center; the first classes to travel to Cuba; the first to perform in Carnegie Hall in more than 60 years; and the first to backpack through the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico.”

Prior to the conferring of degrees was a Native American greeting from Taiawenton:ti Chelsea Sunday and her daughter Kaneniokwas Mya Cree, both of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation.

Before the duo sang “Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen,” Ms. Sunday briefly announced it was young Mya’s birthday.

Almost immediately, the crowd of soon-to-be graduates loudly belted out an impromptu round of “Happy Birthday,” much to the glee of young Mya as well as the large crowd of students, staff, faculty, and friends and family of the students.

During the cermony, two awards were presented to members of the Potsdam community.

Sen. Joseph A. Griffo, R-Rome, along with Ms. Esterberg, presented the Leadership Through Service Award to Saverio “Sam” and Carmela Spagnolo, founders and owners of Sergi’s Restaurant.

“Potsdam wouldn’t be Potsdam without Sergi’s pizza,” Ms. Esterberg said.

In addition, philanthropists Joy MacDonald Dorf ‘58 and Richard Dorf received the Roger B. Linden Distinguished Service Award.

In her speech to graduates, Ms. Esterberg asked the crowd to remember their time at SUNY Potsdam.

“You have all taken away lessons, friendships and memories to last a lifetime,” Ms. Esterberg said. “You have already had an indelible impact on SUNY Potsdam. And we are eager to see the changes that you, the class of 2017, will make in the world.”

COLTON — Police, fire and rescue squads responded to reports of a plane crash near 4604 Route 56 shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday.

There were two unidentified male passengers in the aircraft, which was described as a small fixed-wing plane with a propeller.

Troopers said both passengers escaped the plane crash without injuries except for a few minor cuts.

“They were lucky,” Colton Fire Department Chief Aaron Johnson said.

Mr. Johnson said the aircraft possibly was flown out of the Tupper Lake area and the destination was the Hannawa Falls area.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

According to officials on the scene, there was no oil spill because fuel tanks were located in the wings of the aircraft.

State police said the St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office was handling the investigation. St. Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies did not respond to requests for information.

Route 56 was temporarily turned into a one-lane road while sheriff’s deputies, state police, Colton Fire and Rescue Squads and Pierrepont Fire Department responded to the scene of the crash. The road was reopened with both lanes about 6 p.m.

This is the second plane crash in the Colton area this month.

On the night of May 3, Eric Carrier, 35, of St.-Gedeon-de-Beauce, Quebec, was the sole victim of a plane crash in the vicinity of 327 Windmill Road in South Colton.

POTSDAM — Village police charged a Canton man with aggravated driving while intoxicated early Friday.

Police said Ryan M. Locy, 35, was stopped at 2:44 a.m. on Elm Street after failing to signal when making a right turn from Broad Street onto Leroy Street.

His blood alcohol content was determined to be 0.23 percent, police said. Under state law, a BAC of 0.08 percent or more is considered proof of intoxication. Aggravated DWI is charged when the BAC is 0.18 percent or higher. Mr. Locy also was found to have a prior conviction for DWI within the past 10 years.

He also was cited with making an improper or unsafe turn without signal.

WELLESLEY ISLAND — Although it has not been done in recent history, the U.S. Coast Guard opened its doors to the public Saturday in honor of National Safe Boating Week. The Landon Road station, located across the St. Lawrence River from Alexandria Bay, has been in operation since the mid-1970s. Visitors were given an opportunity to meet with Coast Guard crew members, tour the facility and interact with the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and local law enforcement. Each group provided information about its programs and safe boating.

“They could put an eye on what we do on a daily basis,” Petty Officer Carlo J. Masi said. “We live here. They can see our work environment.”

The station is manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

As a branch of military service, members of the Coast Guard are required to have daily physical training. There is a workout room at the station and an outdoor fitness trail.

“As in any military service, cleanliness is important,” Petty Officer Masi said. “We are always cleaning something — the boats, picking up sticks.”

However, their main duties involve keeping the nation’s waterways safe — and for the Wellesley Island station, that means Lake Ontario at Cape Vincent up the St. Lawrence River to the Canadian border.

“We protect the waterways, conduct search and rescue, do recreational boating safety checks — in fact, we have a crew in Sackets Harbor this weekend doing recreational safety — and we do the shiprider program.”

As described by Capt. David Charbonneau of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the program, officially called Integrated Cross-border Maritime Law Enforcement Operations, allows Canadian law enforcement members to serve alongside Americans on their vessels and vice versa.

“This way we can enforce the law on both sides of the border,” Capt. Charbonneau said. “It’s a good partnership.”

He said when an American vessel is used there are three Coast Guard or border patrol members and one Canadian officer, and the ratio is reversed on Canadian boats.

The Canadian said the open house was an opportunity to educate the public about the joint program and to answer questions about policies.

“When recreating in Canadian waters, you must report in to the Canadian Border Services Agency,” he said.

Senior Chief Brandon B. Liesen said the main purpose of the open house was to “let the public see what we do and meet our partners.”

He said holding it during National Safe Boating Week gave the groups an opportunity to stress some important messages.

“We want to promote wearing life jackets,” he said. “Just like when you are in a car accident it is too late to fasten your seat belt, when you are boating it is best to wear the life jacket. It is required to have a life jacket onboard, but it is important to wear it.”

He said another danger on waterways is inattentiveness.

“You need to pay attention and be aware of your surroundings while boating,” Chief Liesen said. “Alcohol and boating do not mix.”

He noted the Coast Guard also encourages people to seek training for paddler safety.

“The sport is really taking off, but people need to be safe. We’ve made it a priority for the season,” he said. “We are urging people to wear a life jacket and carry a whistle.”

Flotilla Commander John C. “Jack” Augsbury of the Coast Guard Auxiliary said last year there were nine paddle craft accidents that caused Coast Guard Rear Admiral June E. Ryan to mandate making paddle craft safety a priority.

Partnering with Jefferson Community College, Watertown, Commander Augsbury said there will be a guide to paddle safety course offered this summer.

Commander Robert M. Laurer, Coast Guard Auxiliary public education directorate, said the most important things to remember about being out in a paddle craft is to “be aware of your surroundings and know the rules of the road.”

“They don’t call those things Texas speed bumps for nothing,” he said. “They can be seen on the open water by bigger boats and get run over.”

He said operators of paddle boats need to practice defensive boating.

Coast Guard veteran Robert J. Stepien and his wife, Mary Lou, of Alexandria Bay, attended the open house to visit the “new station.” According to his wife, Mr. Stepien had served while the station was housed next door.

Sharon Brown of St. Petersburg, Fla., who owns a camp in the Thousand Islands, said she and her husband, Schuyler “Pete,” came to learn more about their “obligations when crossing the border while boating.”

“I’m glad they did this,” she said, noting they also had garnered information for Mr. Brown’s grandson, who is interested in joining the Coast Guard.

Petty Officer Masi, a nearly 10-year member, said he would encourage anyone to join the service.

“My passion is driving boats and I get to do that every day,” he said. “I’ve learned leadership and humility, and it has been a great way to take care of my family.”

WATERTOWN — Parishioners are expected to find out in November how two other Catholic churches in the city will be connected with Holy Family Church.

Faced with shifting and dwindling populations, along with fewer clergy, the Diocese of Ogdensburg has instructed the three parishes to come up with a pastoral plan to connect Holy Family with St. Patrick’s and St. Anthony’s churches, Monsignor Robert H. Aucoin said.

The three parishes were directed to come up with a plan so they “could be linked in some way” under the direction of one pastor, an assistant pastor and adequate pastoral staff, including deacons and lay pastoral associates, said Monsignor Aucoin, pastor of St. Anthony’s and St. Patrick’s churches.

While he stressed the plan would provide appropriate pastoral care for all three churches, the plan will depend on the availability of clergy and would not take effect until it is needed, he said.

An 11-member “Living Stones” committee, consisting of representatives from the three Catholic parishes, already has begun looking at “various options,” which would include merging, Monsignor Aucoin said. But he dispelled rumors that merging the churches was already decided.

“The church moves slowly and people jump to conclusions quickly,” he said.

In 2009, St. Patrick’s and St. Anthony’s churches consolidated and started sharing priests, at a time when the number of clergy already was dwindling.

In 2014, the diocese, led by Bishop Terry R. Lavalley, formed a visioning process to ensure that all parishes throughout the diocese have appropriate coverage.

The plan for the three churches will be presented to parishioners before going to Bishop Lavalley for approval, Monsignor Aucoin said.

The Living Stones committee — made up of Monsignor Aucoin, the Rev. Steven M. Murray, pastor of Holy Family, and three representatives from each of the parishes — has already met three times, as recently as Thursday.

“This committee was tasked to design a pastoral plan specific for the three areas now served by the three parishes with an eye toward the current situation and the potential for future growth of the Catholic community,” Monsignor Aucoin said.

At some point, there will be meetings for parishioners so the work of the committee can be presented to and input taken from them.

It will be important for parishioners to know the Sunday and daily Mass schedules, he said. It is unclear whether current clergy will lead the three parishes.

While he did not know the specifics of the situation, James D. Crowley, the diocese’s director of communications, said it would take time to implement the plan.

“It’s not the case of happening any time soon,” he said. “It could be one year or five years.”

There are also several issues to explore before a plan is formed, Monsignor Aucoin said. The committee will consider consolidation of staff. Some staff members are already shared.

Since March, church officials have kept track of attendance at the churches. The number of marriage ceremonies and funerals and attendance of children’s religious classes are among factors that will be considered.

As is the case with St. Patrick’s and St. Anthony’s, those two churches and Holy Family will have separate finances, Monsignor Aucoin said.

But the churches will share common expenses. For instance, one of the churches would be responsible for a roof replacement, while shared personnel would be the responsibility of all three churches.

A survey will go out in the next 10 days or so to the parishioners of all three churches to see what they think about the situation. They will be distributed at all three churches and online.

The Living Stones committee will continue to meet monthly.

As more businesses and initiatives related to tourism continue to pop up across the north country, there is an ever-growing effort to organize the area’s assets. One product of this attempt is a sprawling network of tourism trails that works to direct people to a winery, barn quilt exhibit or other attraction that will then lead to another similar experience.

Many of these trails in the north country are in their infancy, and some have yet to be completed. The goal is simple: to draw tourism dollars to the area and offer an array of businesses and attractions to compel visitors to return. While some of the first examples of such trails have fallen by the wayside due to lack of funding, others are built strictly to better equip the area in its attempt to target grant money. Geography creates hardship for some trail initiatives, while others are held up by restrictions in funding. Community-based trail movements also have sprung up, and more inclusive trails seem to be on the minds of organizers moving forward.

While many of the north country’s food, wine and art trails are new, organizing amenities in this fashion is no novel concept, according to Gary S. DeYoung, executive director of the 1000 Islands International Tourism Council.

“The trails idea has been around a long time. From my experience, it started with scenic byways, which is a bit of a misnomer because they are not just structured because they are scenic, they are structured because they are scenic and have cultural and recreational amenities along the way,” he said.

Mr. DeYoung said the area along the St. Lawrence River is part of the Seaway Trail, a national scenic byway that runs along the river and Great Lakes, which has been around since the late 1970s. Scenic byways from the national level have some sort of interpretation and planning associated with them that helps promote general tourism, he said.

He said while there used to be money earmarked for these types of trails by the National Highway Administration, the vision has changed and some of the funding has disappeared.

“The priorities at the national level changed from promotion and interpretation into bricks and mortar. So for years, we had a lot of ability using the Seaway Trail to get all of the communities that, say, have historic lighthouses together and do some interpretation and co-promotion,” he said. “Most of that kind of funding has dried up at the federal level, so it is very difficult to pursue those projects anymore.”

Lately, though, New York state has picked up the slack when it comes to injecting money into trails initiatives.

“There is a network of state-designated byways; Black River trail, maple trail … the north country tends to have a lot more of those than other parts of the state,” Mr. DeYoung said. “We have got kind of a spider web of trails that go through the Thousand Islands and Adirondacks.”

St. Lawrence County has created a wine trail to better market its vineyards and draw attention to what the county has to offer. While the trail is helpful, St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce Director Brooke E. Rouse said the size of the county and the relatively small number of stops along the trail make the initiative problematic.

“With the wine trail, the wineries are 30 miles apart and there is only three of them,” Mrs. Rouse said. “Our hope is that it inspires people to open more wineries.”

The “Wine Trail” distinction is very specific, according to Mrs. Rouse. She said other, similar businesses, such as Kaneb Orchards, a cidery, do not qualify to be included in the wine trail.

“It is hard to market that as just a wine trail when it’s just three wineries,” she said.

To work around the restrictive designation of the wine trail, Mrs. Rouse said, the county chamber is looking at a more inclusive approach to marketing local producers.

“We have been looking at developing a culinary trail of some sort which is organized through (New York state Department of Agriculture and Markets) and Cornell Cooperative Extension have a couple people working on that,” Mrs. Rouse said.

“It is basically any kind of farm-to-table experience that could include a farm stand, a farmers market, a farm experience, a restaurant that is doing farm-to-table, a bed-and-breakfast or hotel that is doing farm-to-table,” she said. “Our plan was also to feature any kind of food-related experience or business that might not necessarily be locally grown.”

The cuisine trail plan St. Lawrence County is considering is already the focus of Mellissa M. Spence, sustainable agriculture educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Lewis County. Ms. Spence said it has been a long process, but 14 businesses have signed on to make up the cuisine trail for Lewis County.

“It is going to basically be a 50-mile trail so you can do it all in one day if you want to,” she said. “It involves the vineyard, cheese processors, tree growers, landscaping. There are also some restaurants on there. So it is promoting local foods and for people to come and share what we have in this area.”

Ms. Spence credits Susan E. Maring, co-owner of Tug Hill Vineyards, Lowville, with expressing interest in such a proposal.

“For us, we are the only winery in Lewis County, so we need to have something that ties together all of the other tourism-type businesses in the area,” Ms. Maring said. “We would be able to tie in the microbreweries, the cheese places, flower shops and the maple syrup producers.”

Ms. Maring said the idea works for her business because her winery is relatively isolated. After a brief attempt to join the Thousand Islands Seaway Wine Trail, she decided her marketing funds could better serve her elsewhere.

“We were just too far out of the loop,” Ms. Maring said. “We decided to pull out of it and spend our advertising dollars more in the Utica area because that is a little closer to us and there weren’t other wine trails down there and we were seeing a lot of people coming up from that area, so we thought that was a better market for us.”

Mr. DeYoung said while there are plenty of wineries to justify the Thousand Islands Seaway Wine Trail, there is a push to be more inclusive along the St. Lawrence River as well.

“We have gone from branding that the Thousand Islands Seaway Wine Trail and now our promotions … we call it Taste 1000, which is a little broader definition and would include the brew pubs and the distilleries,” Mr. DeYoung said.

St. Lawrence County’s geography means many of its attractions are several miles apart, and Mrs. Rouse said the county’s potential plan would include more than just food and beverage stops.

“We were also hoping to mix our culinary trail with art and cultural aspects because the challenge with our county being so large is that there would be quite some distance between those specific locations on the trail, so we would want to fill that with other attractions for people to visit,” she said.

One such art and cultural aspect is the barn quilt trend, which has been gaining popularity on two opposite ends of St. Lawrence County. Ruth T. McWilliams, the tourism and beautification coordinator for Colton, said the town is heading the barn quilt efforts in the foothills in collaboration with Colton-Pierrepont Central School.

“The art teacher at the school has been very interested in barn quilts, so we have been working with students as young as in the fourth grade through the school art club,” she said.

“The barn quilt trails are really neat because they are really homegrown, which I always love to see communities find something that is a good fit for their community and something they truly believe in and have ownership of,” Mrs. Rouse said.

Hammond was the first community in the county to establish a barn quilt trail, an initiative that is community-based. Both Hammond and Colton barn quilt trails each has more than 50 quilt blocks, and Ms. McWilliams said there has been interest from other communities between the two established trails.

“Right now, we have got this Canton push, which is emerging as a way for us to keep pushing the barn quilt movement forward. We sort of hone in on parts of the county where there is interest and do some push, like workshops and events to bring greater attention at the community level,” she said.

Ms. McWilliams said she hopes to use the Dairy Princess Parade in Canton to push the barn quilt tradition. She said the St. Lawrence County Historical Association plans to hang several barn quilts from its red barn building on Main Street, near the center of the parade route.

Ms. McWilliams said the barn quilts have caught on well because of the individuality they allow people to illustrate. She also said it has pushed some residents in the area to better maintain property.

“A lot of people just like to see these colorful images as they are driving around. It has also prompted some people who have put up barn quilts to actually speed up some improvement projects to their building. We have had some buildings repainted or re-sided in preparation for the barn quilts to be installed,” she said.

Mrs. Rouse said she thinks some people feel a link between the barn quilts and the culture of the region.

“It is kind of public art, it is history, it is culture; it really embraces the agricultural heritage of this area while kind of providing something as people are traveling through the rural landscape of the county,” she said.

“We really get people to think about traditional quilt block patterns and how it relates to the place where their building is,” Ms. McWilliams said. “A sense of place and history is tied in with what we are trying to do in Colton.”

The barn quilts may tie into another trails effort that has gained popularity in the north country recently, one that requires a slightly different means of travel.

“In Colton, we have them facing both the road and the water. Increasingly, we have people with camps or cottages or boathouses putting them facing the water so boaters can see them,” Ms. McWilliams said.

Blueway trails have sprung up across the area. Mr. De­Young said the Black River Blueway trail includes boat launches and information that allows paddlers better access to the river. Ms. McWilliams has been heavily involved with the Raquette River Blueway Trail and said kiosks will soon be available along the route to inform interested parties of access points, history and other amenities.

Leigh B. Rodriguez is Canton’s economic developer and has a hand in creating the Blueway Trail plan for the Grasse River. She said blueway trails look at communities along a waterway, inventory the waterway’s assets and look at how it can be enhanced and be marketed for more tourism while also maintaining the waterway in a respectful manner.

“It identifies places that might be good for a boat launch, for example,” she said. “You want to promote public access to the river and appreciation and utilization of the river in various ways.”

Blueway trails are advantageous because they create cohesion among communities that share the river corridor, Ms. Rodriguez said.

“I think part of the goal is that looking at one community individually, it may not be a destination or a place where you would spend a significant amount of time. But if you look at the entirety or a big stretch of the waterway and all of the communities along it and identify things to do all along the waterway, it might be a two- or three-day thing you could do,” she said.

Mrs. Rouse also pointed to collaboration among municipalities as a benefit for the blueway trail idea.

“You are looking at communities that have never worked together, have never even thought of why they would work together,” she said. “Combining resources, leveraging resources to apply for grants to do some of the things that certainly would not be available to these smaller communities, it then gives them an opportunity to be on the map and work together to create an attraction.”

“It gets people from multiple communities talking together, thinking about marketing and branding together and sharing assets, which to me is the key in a place where resources are so limited. It is so important to work together,” she said.

Ms. Rodriguez said a blueway trail is a plan, something that can be used as leverage when applying for funding to complete development projects.

“It has a lot of community input into how it can be enhanced. For example, if there was a place identified for a boat launch, we could pursue money to put in a boat launch,” she said. “It gives us something to point to and say, ‘Look, this is something that has been identified by the community as a priority and now we want money to implement it.’”

Restaurants, emergency services and convenience items are keys to providing a complete blueway trail for visitors. Ms. Rodriguez said that while there is no specific plan of attack for the Grasse River yet, she thinks the plan for the Oswegatchie Blueway Trail makes sense.

The Oswegatchie Blueway Trail has broken up its plan into primary and secondary nodes along the river. Primary nodes offer services such as a hospital, lodging and restaurants, while secondary nodes will have gas and other necessary amenities.

“I think that makes sense because you need to have the amenities that people are going to need when they are utilizing the asset while they are there,” she said. “For example, Rensselaer Falls is on the Oswegatchie and they are a secondary node. So if it is identified that a secondary node should have gas and convenience items, if those things aren’t in that community, that gives you a reason to say, ‘Hey, look, if this trail comes together and we start marketing it, we really should put these things here.’”

While Ms. McWilliams said there is no official link between the blueway trail and the barn quilt initiatives, she believes it is a possibility for the future.

“I would say right now, the two aren’t hard-wired,” she said. “I am always looking for ways to connect the dots between things we are doing.”

From blueways and barn quilts to wineries and locally produced foods, mapping out the goods and services offered in the north country has become an increasingly popular effort in marketing the area. While geography and governmental restrictions create a roadblock for some local trails, others flourish on the backs of community volunteers. A major push is on to create as much cohesion as possible among foods, beverages and the arts to create a more inclusive and well-rounded experience for visitors, which will, in theory, allow the businesses, organizations and individuals involved to expose themselves to a more robust local tourism economy.

OGDENSBURG — City police on Thursday charged Michael R. Hooven, 30, of 834 Ford St., Room 17, and Harry J. Cooper, Jr., 35, of 834 Ford St., Room 9, with felony third-degree unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine and the misdemeanors of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree reckless endangerment.

Police charge that while responding with Ogdensburg Fire Department to 834 Ford St. for a report of an activated fire alarm, they observed a one-pot methamphetamine lab inside one of the single occupancy rooms. Police said a bottle used in the process of making methamphetamine had released a gaseous vapor cloud, setting off the fire alarm. While executing a search warrant, police said, they searched three rooms which revealed a quantity of methamphetamine, along with evidence and components related to the manufacturing of meth.

Both men were held in lockup pending arraignment. The investigation continues, and further arrests are expected.

The Ogdensburg Police Department Narcotics Enforcement Unit and fire department were assisted by the St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office Drug Task Force and state police Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team.

May 20

Bachelor’s Degrees

Adams

Courtney Whelan, business administration

Alexandria Bay

Christopher Vaphiadis, business administration

Zachary Walti, criminal justice studies

Christopher Strough, history

Antwerp

Elizabeth Filkins, sociology

Beaver Falls

Samuel Lyndaker, business administration

Black River

Nicole Wormwood, business administration

Brasher Falls

Michelina DiMatteo, business administration

Krista Thompson, psychology

Brownville

Jason Aldrich, business administration

Calcium

Atashae Gore, sociology

Canton

Austin Antle, business administration

William Ayers, archaeological studies

Maricel Kitts, biochemistry and biology

Kathleen Lapinski, exercise science

Murphy Newman, psychology

Hannah Pike, community health

Abigail Savage, psychology

Erica Smith, Spanish and middle/secondary Spanish education

Carthage

Zachary Anderson, summa cum laude, business administration

Asia Bliss, psychology

Casey Boulio, history

Katelyn Dawley, business administration

Michael Hall, business administration

David Riggons, geology

Castorland

Tarren Farney, environmental studies

Tamara Fidler, music education

Rachel Noftsier, graduate summa cum laude, English literature

Chaumont

Kody Bleam, summa cum laude, mathematics

Erica Gardner, cum laude, psychology

Rachel Johnston-Millington, summa cum laude, childhood/early childhood education

Aubrey Mellen, business administration

Clayton

Darien Frederick, summa cum laude, biology

Anthony Ingerson, business administration

Colton

Chris Donnelly, business administration

Stephanie Fansler, music business

Daniel Knight, cum laude, psychology

Copenhagen

Dylan Eddy, history

Croghan

Sage Keefer, computer science

Evan Lashbrooks, theatre

Allison Meyer, magna cum laude, Spanish and middle/secondary Spanish education

Lillia Woolschlager, summa cum laude, musical studies and music performance

DeKalb Junction

Jonathon Peters, history

Sadie Smith, summa cum laude, psychology and English and creative writing

Dexter

Kierstin Hall, geology and Earth science adolescent education

Jacob Holeman, politics

Michael Roukous, environmental studies

Edwards

Mindy Oatman, art studio

Alison Thompson, summa cum laude, art history

Ellisburg

Emily Schenck, summa cum laude, business administration

Evans Mills

Christi Frey, summa cum laude, biology

Dale Hajdasz, cum laude, theatre

Benjamin Luptak, magna cum laude, business administration and economics

Glenfield

Jonathan Neuschwander, cum laude, English literature

Gouverneur

Mikaela Carr, magna cum laude, childhood/early childhood education

Kyle Cassidy, cum laude, chemistry

Megan Cook, English and creative writing

Joshua Girard, history

Alyssa Jenkins, magna cum laude, psychology

Caroline Leslie, psychology and biology

Nicholas Marasco, magna cum laude, computer science

Matthew Miller, history and middle/secondary social studies education

Rachael Stannard, computer science

Jaz Yerdon, cum laude, childhood/early childhood education

Hammond

Corbin Clemons, magna cum laude, art studio

Meredith Ouderkirk, cum laude, psychology and women’s and gender studies

Hannawa Falls

Daniel Cruikshank, politics and international studies

Marion Enslow, psychology

Harrisville

Holly Hart, chemistry

Helena

Noelle Rufa, community health

Henderson

Lindsey Pound, cum laude, business administration

Nichole Race, cum laude, graphic design and new media

Hermon

Tyler Flanagan, speech communication

David Love, magna cum laude, philosophy

Heuvelton

Timothy Backus, magna cum laude, computer science

Daniela Odle, biology

Mikayla Thompson, art studio

LaFargeville

Christianne Gray, magna cum laude, biology and adolescent education

Shaun Stoffer, cum laude, business administration

Lisbon

Leeann Dawley, cum laude, psychology

Samantha Gladle, cum laude, community health

Briana Teele, business administration

Lowville

Meagan Daymont, magna cum laude, business administration

Jaclyne Newton, psychology

Robert Perkins, magna cum laude, business administration

Olivia Stoddard, summa cum laude, graphic design and new media

Madrid

Colin McNamara, physics

Martinsburg

Michael Cataldo, cum laude, computer science

Massena

Thomas Boudreau, cum laude, biology

Lindy Chapman, summa cum laude, biology

Kelly Deshaies, environmental studies

Allison Fountain, summa cum laude, childhood/early childhood education

Dylan Griffin, English and creative writing

William Hamilton, summa cum laude, psychology

Shawn Hatch, criminal justice studies and sociology

Gerard Jemison, magna cum laude, history and middle/secondary social studies education

Elizabeth LaBarge, cum laude, mathematics and middle/secondary mathematics education

Emily Lambert, cum laude, biology and psychology

Michael Lazore, biology

Heather Mariner, biology

Roxanna McGregor, psychology

Courtney Patterson, community health

Jaclyn Ryan, biology

Ethan Snider, biology

Andrew Valancius, computer science

Kaleigh Zappia, magna cum laude, geology

Nicholville

Joseph Carlisle, magna cum laude, business administration and philosophy

Norfolk

Mon Hadzovic, business administration

Spencer Paige, summa cum laude, biology

North Lawrence

Camren Campeau, geology

Norwood

Katherine Ames, cum laude, childhood/early childhood education

Kerri Boyer, magna cum laude, exercise science

James Doran, art studio

Kady Hart, summa cum laude, childhood/early childhood education

Amanda Peacock, art studio

Laurie Swaney, psychology

Carly Watson, magna cum laude, childhood/early childhood education

Ashley Woodward, Spanish and middle/secondary Spanish education

Ogdensburg

Brianna Barber, literature/writing

JohnPaul Burns, psychology

Tammy Bush, cum laude, sociology

Tyler Carrow, biology

Tyler Fiacco, magna cum laude, psychology and computer science

Ashlyn Piercey, cum laude, art studio

Merria Recker, biology

Jacob Shaver, politics

Emily Uppstrom, magna cum laude, sociology

Oswegatchie

Ashley White, psychology and sociology

Parishville

William Barr, summa cum laude, history, sociology and English literature

Michaela Cole, business administration

Jenna Converse, cum laude, psychology

Philadelphia

Logan Running, summa cum laude, biochemistry

Potsdam

Amy Arno, anthropology

Jamie Babcock, psychology and anthropology

Konnor Bigwarfe, childhood education

Joseph Boswell, community health

Kelsey Charleson, cum laude, business administration and graphic design and new media

Nicholas Cincinnati, English and creative writing

Elizabeth Davis, art studio

Jesse Fobare, magna cum laude, speech communication

Garry Griggs, magna cum laude, computer science

George Hastings, anthropology

Elise Hejna, psychology

Thomas Hobbs, magna cum laude, geology

Faina Khibkin, summa cum laude, theatre

Donald Lee, biology

Asia Little, community health

Amanda Marotta, chemistry

Caitlin McGregor, magna cum laude, criminal justice studies and psychology

Kylie McKinley, community health

David Merced, chemistry and business administration

Joshua Mitchell, criminal justice studies and sociology

Lisa Nehm, cum laude, community health

Brooke Newtown, psychology

Tyler Perry, summa cum laude, psychology

Sabrina Petrie, history

Dana Reid, summa cum laude, exercise science

Taylor Salisbury, theatre

Salvador Sarmiento, biology

Stanley Schmidt, chemistry

Elizabeth Schneller, magna cum laude, graphic design and new media

Ann Shatraw, cum laude, bachelor’s and master’s degree, childhood/early childhood education and literacy specialization

Ian Sherk, anthropology

Jason Shirtz, cum laude, theatre

Christopher Welch, computer science

Charles White, psychology

Lauren Youngs, history

Raymondville

Julia Freiman, biology

Redwood

Amanda Lingenfelter, business administration

Rensselaer Falls

Cassandra Fobare, biology

Theresa Lester, history and psychology

Rodman

Julie Fish, English literature

Annalise Winkler, summa cum laude, psychology

Rooseveltown

Anastasia George, exercise science

St. Regis Falls

Kiah Sexton, visual arts

William Votra, magna cum laude, criminal justice studies and politics

South Colton

Nicholas Avery, cum laude, business administration

Star Lake

Makenzie Byers, sociology

Lindsay Johnson, summa cum laude, biochemistry

David Law II, cum laude, childhood/early childhood education

Theresa

Sonja Lara-Gonzalez, cum laude, psychology and criminal justice studies

Waddington

Daniel Cassada, cum laude, psychology

Katelyne Marcellus, psychology

Jennifer Ryan, summa cum laude, biology and environmental studies

Watertown

Kylie Ackerman, business administration

Kathryn Beagle, magna cum laude, childhood/early childhood education

Miranda Brenon, literature/writing

Zachary Chatterton, business administration

Matthew Dermady, business administration

Aiden Farragher-Gnadt, chemistry

Julia Fox, psychology

Skyler Green, criminal justice studies

Hannah Keggins, biology

Andrea McGrath, magna cum laude, history

Matthew Moran, speech communication

Ty Santiago, chemistry

Shane Simser, magna cum laude, business administration

Nicholas Tate, magna cum laude, music education

Theresa Thilges, business administration

Samuel Wilson, summa cum laude, environmental studies

Erik Wollum, magna cum laude, geology

West Leyden

Melissa Cole, magna cum laude, chemistry

Adam Lewis, summa cum laude, biology and psychology

Stephen Lewis, magna cum laude, business administration and mathematics

Winthrop

Colby Cyrus, summa cum laude, French, politics and international studies

Erika Losey, summa cum laude, psychology

Michael Reynolds, biology

Tyler Smith, exercise science

Master’s Degrees

Adams

Heather Gordinier, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Antwerp

Jordyn Shampine, teaching, literacy education

Black River

Kelsey Wormwood, education, literacy specialization

Calcium

Kimberly Alger, teaching, childhood education

Canton

Alyshia Binion, education, special education

Sara Cantwell, English and communication

Melinda Davis, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Frederic Glover, teaching, English 7-12 education

Morgan Hastings, music, music performance

Samantha Kelly, education, curriculum and instruction

Megan Morley, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Susan Toshack, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Kira Weiselberg, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Carthage

Ruby Robinson, with distinction, education, curriculum and instruction

Castorland

Kiana Widrick, with distinction, education, literacy specialization

Chaumont

Sarah Pascal, with distinction, education, curriculum and instruction

Clayton

Bethany Cavallario, teaching, childhood education

Hannah Grybowski, teaching, childhood education

Victoria Peck, with distinction, organizational performance and technology

Anthony Pike, teaching, Earth science 7-12 education

Dexter

Rebecca Beaudoin, teaching, childhood education

Megan LaSage, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Evans Mills

Morgan Obodoako, organizational performance and technology

Felts Mills

Taylour Connelly, with distinction, education, literacy specialization

Fort Drum

James Ballard, with distinction, education, curriculum and instruction

Fatima Davy, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Gouverneur

Brandon Griffin, teaching, social studies 5-12 education

Brooke June, education, literacy specialization

Chandler Roberts, with distinction, education, curriculum and instruction

Kara Rockwood, with distinction, education, literacy specialization

Hammond

Angela Matthews, with distinction, education, literacy specialization

Mary Pease, with distinction, education, literacy education

Harrisville

Desiree Morgan, teaching, childhood education

Lowville

Emily Tabolt, education, literacy education

Brian Zehr, teaching, childhood education

Madrid

Meghan Gabri, with distinction, education, education technology specialization

Massena

Scotia Farrell, community health

Desirae Lawrence, education, curriculum and instruction

Kseniya Vasilyeva, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Natural Bridge

Pam Hebert, with distinction, organizational performance and technology

North Lawrence

Bobbi Hull, with distinction, organizational performance and technology

Norwood

Amanda Lyons, teaching, mathematics 5-12 education

Ogdensburg

Leanna Collard, with distinction, teaching, biology 7-12 education

Amy Guasconi, teaching, childhood education

TinaMarie Russell, with distinction, education, literacy education

Charrette Spooner, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Philadelphia

Brittany Bonner, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Kelli Brislan, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Jana Gately, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Melissa Sampson, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Potsdam

John Coleman, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Heidi Czerepak, with distinction, community health

Toree Donnelly, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Allison Gosney, with distinction, music, music performance

Danielle Healis, community health

Joseph Heindl, education, curriculum and instruction

Natasha Herbert, community health

Megan Judware, organizational performance and technology

Erin LaVoie, teaching, English 7-12 education

William Murphy, with distinction, teaching, social studies 5-12 education

Natalie Robson, education, curriculum and instruction

Britney Trombly, teaching, English 7-12 education

Watertown

James Babcock, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Ashley Burke, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Leisa Delosh, teaching, childhood education

Samantha Freeman, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Lindsey Ganter, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Jasmine Gifford, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Andrea McCabe, teaching, childhood education

Brennan Moss, organizational performance and technology

Taylor Purvis, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Devan Robinson, with distinction, organizational performance and technology

William Sharrin, with distinction, education, curriculum and instruction

Brooke Sholette, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

Katherine Ulmen-Smith, with distinction, education, literacy specialization

Julia Tollinchi, with distinction, teaching, childhood education

May 13

Bachelor’s Degree

Adams

Zoey N. Smith

Alexandria Bay

Nicholas R. Speach

Brasher Falls

Tyler V. Savage

Canton

Mia Benjamin

Cape Vincent

Stephen C. Byers

Carthage

Christopher J. Gamble

Colton

Julie Vaisey

Croghan

Mary Brouty

Gouverneur

Taylor Elliott

Hammond

Michael A. L’Abbe

Heuvelton

Kristi R. Pike

James K. Smith

Madrid

Schiler E. Ashley

Regina L. Caswell

Brittany E. Pierce

Massena

Benjamin G. Osypiewski

Elizabeth Peets

Sarah M. Rozon

Morristown

Elizabeth G. Lyons

Norfolk

Jeremy Waite

Ogdensburg

Christopher A. Abar

Robert S. Kimble

Vicky Snyder

Port Leyden

John P. Kraeger

Potsdam

Gema M. Bicknell

Kim M. Briggs

Megan E. Charleston

Sondra L. LaRose

Kailey Martens

Niki M. Perkins

Kay M. White

Richville

Britney L. Mason

Star Lake

Kristen A. Meek

Waddington

Hidee S. Griffin

Watertown

Cody Gibson

Lori A. Hadley

Associate Degree

Colton

Sam Reichert

Julie Vaisey

DeKalb Junction

Chelsea Robinson

Dexter

Garrett Fields

Edwards

Christopher P. Davison

Gouverneur

Nicole L. Cash

Devyn D. Kerley

Hammond

Amanda A. Murray

Lisbon

Lindsay I. Hess

Massena

Christopher J. Belile

Lara M. Brown

Steven M. Gall

Joshua J. Spencer

Darius L. White

Ogdensburg

Chandler D. Barney

Rachael Sharlow

Potsdam

Jordan L. Cantwell

Michael A. Collins

Wendy A. Montroy

Certificate

Hermon

Kim Clark

Norfolk

Brandon J. LaFave

Winthrop

Christina McCarthy

New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, alongside California Attorney General Xavier Beccara, is leading a charge to meet House Republicans on the legal battlefield of the Affordable Care Act.

A coalition of 16 attorneys general nationwide has moved to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit appeal, which according to the offices of Mr. Schneiderman and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, would undercut the affordability of health care for 730,000 people by $900 million — in New York alone.

A legal challenge brought by the Republican-majority House of Representatives — House Representatives v. Price — seeks to block billions of dollars in ACA subsidies. These subsidies, called cost-sharing reductions, reduce co-pays, deductible and out-of-pocket expenses for low-income Americans, as required by the ACA.

“Millions of families across the country, including hundreds of thousands right here in New York, rely on these subsidies for their basic health care. We’re talking about people’s lives — and for President Trump and the Republicans to use them as pawns in a political game is simply unconscionable,” Mr. Schneiderman said in a public statement. “No family should have to choose between protecting their child’s health and putting a roof over their heads.”

In the same announcement, Gov. Cuomo called the actions of the federal government “a direct assault on New York and our values.”

In recent months the unknown fate of health care subsidies has caused uncertainty in insurance markets as well. The AG’s office said the goal of the legal intervention is to protect Americans from both the loss of subsidies and the impact of market issues.

CARTHAGE — It’s almost that time of year — farmers market time, that is.

The Carthage Farmers Market opens for the season Friday. The weekly market is held at the Farmers Market Pavilion on Riverside Drive from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays through Oct. 27.

After exploring several options for a market manager, the market committee decided Carthage Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Lori A. Borland will assume those duties.

She will staff a booth at the market from 6 a.m. to noon to check in vendors and handle any situation that arises.

At the booth, she will have fliers about upcoming events throughout the community and information on joining the chamber.

Besides offering a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, plants and craft items, the market provides live entertainment.

The chamber is seeking individuals or groups interested in showcasing their talents at the market from 10 a.m. to noon at a rate of $25 per hour.

Volunteer entertainment is also welcome. Those interested can call entertainment chairman Ronald R. Roch at 315-493-0021 for more information.

The market committee has several special events planned for the season.

Children’s Day is set for June 9. Schoolchildren will be visiting the market that day and some vendors will have specials for the young visitors.

Customer Appreciation Day will be July 14.

Military Appreciation Day is set for Aug. 4 with the possibility of a group from the 10th Mountain Division Band performing and specials from some vendors for military members.

Autumn Fest, with performances by Carthage Central High School students and displays by first responders, is set for Sept. 29.

For more information about the market, call 315-493-3590 or visit the chamber website at www.carthageny.com.

According to Ms. Borland, there are more than 36 vendors signed up to sell their wares and services which range from produce and plants to honey, maple syrup, meat, books by local authors, baked goods, hand sewn items, wood crafts, birdhouses, organics, knitted items, face painting and fishing lures.

New to the market this year are:

n Marvin Swartzentruber — honey

n Frank Kogut — honey

n Meekestead Farm — vegetables and cut flowers

n Lynea Longmore — woodburned items

n Terry Buckley — doll clothes, aprons, hand-sewn items

n Claudia Chandler — basket weaving, silver/gold jewelry

n Darlene LaPlatney — crafts, soaps, salves

Returning vendors are:

n Charlotte Everett — organic produce

n Cindy Bancroft — embroidered and crocheted items

n NNY Gals and Guys — embroidered and appliquéd toys, games, décor and accessories

n Burnham’s Pure Maple Syrup

n Elaine Brouty — jam, jelly, syrup, sewing , wood items

n Root 42 Rustics — rustic wooden crafts

n Sheri Strock — produce, annuals, perennials, goat’s milk soap, meat, eggs, etc.

n Ada Waite — homemade household items

n Brenda DeRouch — knitted hats, mittens and scarves

n Joe Zehr — veggies, fruits, sweet corn

n Ron Roch — produce

n Janice Gardner — fruits, veggies, sewn and wood products

n Marjorie Moser — baked goods

n Hope Marston — local author

n Bush Gardens — produce

n Red Barn Meats — meat

n Fish Happy Lures — fishing lures

n Lamont’s Food Fair — food vendor

n Mark Grau — vegetables

n Simmons Farm — produce, crafts

n Stony Creek Country Store — Steria home-baked goods and bulk food

n Sam Kanagy — produce

n Charlie Brown — wooden items

WATSON — Three Lowville residents were arrested for allegedly having meth-making materials following a traffic stop on Number Four Road in the town of Watson.

Lewis County sheriff’s deputies charged Jordan M. Miller, 23; Tessa M. Anson, 24; and Bram L. Widrick, 19, with third-degree unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine. Mr. Miller and Ms. Anson also were charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of marijuana, while Mr. Miller additionally was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, driving without a license and having an unsafe tire.

All three were arraigned and sent to Lewis County jail, Lowville, with bail set at $7,500 for Mr. Widrick, $5,000 for Mr. Miller and $1,000 for Ms. Anson.

Deputies said Mr. Miller is also subject to an active warrant from the city of Watertown, while Ms. Anson was turned over to the Lowville Police Department as she is a suspect in a larceny investigation.

Mr. Widrick last fall was sentenced to jail time on charges of third-degree unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine and first-degree reckless endangerment for making meth last May in an apartment building on South State Street in Lowville, causing an explosion that burned down the building. He was granted youthful offender status in that case.

FORT DRUM — Post officials are warning that road construction at the Cerjan Access Control Point, starting Monday, will cause “significant disruption” to traffic flow for a few weeks.

The gate, also known as Main Gate, is linked to Interstate 81 via Interstate 781.

The post said the work will be done in three phases and is expected to take about three weeks to finish.

The post said motorists should expect delays and changes in traffic patterns while the work is done, and should exercise caution while accessing the gate.

During the work, the 45th Infantry Division Access Control Point on Route 26 will be open for DOD ID card holders and Local Access Badges during the construction period.

The first phase of the work, starting on Monday, will close all outbound traffic at the gate. During this phase, the 45th Infantry gate will be open 24 hours a day.

During the second phase, southbound traffic will reopen, but changing traffic patterns during the work will reduce inbound and outbound capacity at the gate.

The 45th Infantry gate will be open from 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday during the second phase.

During the third phase, lane shifts will occur to allow the completion of the project.

Changes to traffic patterns will limit inbound and outbound capacity at the gate.

The 45th Infantry gate will be open from 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday during the third phase.

In Jefferson County Court on Friday, Ariel L. Carlisle, 32, Watertown, pleaded guilty to second-degree promotion of prison contraband.

Ms. Carlisle, who was being booked into the Jefferson Count jail on a probation violation April 30, was found to have possessed bath salts at the time. Bath salts are hallucinogens that resemble Epsom salts and cause bizarre, often violent behavior. Her sentencing is scheduled for July 17.

In other court action:

Joshua R. Daniels, 35, Gouverneur, pleaded guilty to third-degree attempted burglary. Mr. Daniels, who also had pleaded guilty to several St. Lawrence County break-ins last month, admitted that he broke into a business in Philadelphia on Nov. 19 and attempted to open its cash box. He is scheduled to be sentenced in Jefferson County on June 9, and in St. Lawrence County on June 5.

Nichole A. Smith, 27, Watertown, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree grand larceny and second-degree attempted forgery.

Ms. Smith, who has previously faced similar charges, admitted that on Nov. 27 she took more than $1,000 worth of items from Mary Dean, and attempted to forge a check in Johnnie Dean’s name on Christmas Day. Her sentencing is scheduled for July 17.

Alicia N. Whitcomb, 24, Watertown, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor third-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

Ms. Whitcomb admitted that she struck Samuel O’Rourke on the head with a beer bottle while drunk on March 18.

Her sentencing is scheduled for July 18.

OSWEGO — The annual ARISE and Ride for Ramps event will take place on June 3 at Lighthouse Lanes, 295 E Albany St. The event offers something for the whole family: a 5K walk/run, a motorcycle ride, music and great food.

The day will start at 9:30 a.m. with a 5K run/walk around the famous Oswego Speedway.

The motorcycles will depart at 10 a.m. for a ride through the north country. Riders will enjoy a journey through some of the most beautiful views Oswego County has to offer.

The day wouldn’t be complete without the barbecue at Lighthouse Lanes. There will be a choice of pulled pork or barbecue chicken. The event will once again offer a drive-up service later in the day for those attending the races that evening. Tickets for just the barbecue are available on the website. There will be activities for everyone in the family to do.

Funding raised through the event will be used for people in Oswego County who cannot afford a ramp or home accessibility modifications.

Support for this event makes it possible for people to remain at home and not be forced into a nursing home. It also means that people can come home from rehab or the hospital much more quickly.

ARISE and Ride for Ramps allows people with disabilities to return to their community and feel hopeful once again as they rejoin their families to live in dignity.

Register at rideforramps.org.