SACKETS HARBOR — Hi-Lite Airfield Services unveiled plans on Thursday morning to build a $5.4 million corporate headquarters on the former Augsbury Oil Company property on outer Ambrose Street.

Moving from Adams Center, the global company will bring in new 40 professional jobs to the facility, company president John McNeely said.

“It’s the biggest thing to happen to Sackets Harbor since the War of 1812,” Mayor Vincent J. Battista III said.

The announcement was made at the former Union Hotel with about 50 village and town officials and local, state and economic development representatives in attendance.

The company also has eight facilities nationwide and provides runway renovation, signage and debris removal services to airports around the world.

Mr. McNeely said he hopes for an early spring ground-breaking for the 17,000-square-foot facility to be completed by the end of next year.

The company is receiving a $600,000 grant from the state Empire State Development Corp. to help finance the project. Hi-Lite currently employs 92 workers in the U.S. and 150 worldwide.

Hi-Lite will purchase the 14.5-acre site from the Sackets Harbor Local Development Corp. for the project.

The company’s new headquarters also will include a 250-seat convention center that the company will use for training and to rent out for weddings, private parties and other functions.

The project will help local businesses, Mayor Battista said. The 7,000-square-foot convention center will provide catering opportunities for local restaurants, he said.

Marsha A. Maxon, who co-owns the Harbor House Inn in Sackets Harbor, said the convention center will attract employees and other people who will stay in the nearby 29-room hotel.

“It’s huge, really, really huge for us,” she said.

The remainder of the three-story facility will contain administrative offices on the first floor, operations and training on the second floor and upper management offices on the top story.

The mayor and the local development corporation have been working on the deal for about seven months. The Village Board is expected to sign the contract at its November meeting.

Mr. McNeely, who bought a General Smith Drive house about two years ago, lives in Sackets Harbor.

“It’s a great opportunity to be coming to the most idyllic locality in upstate New York,” Mr. McNeely said.

Over the next five years, the company also plans to develop the remaining land for professional office space, he said.

Hi-Lite has a fleet maintenance facility on Route 12F near the Watertown International Airport. It also operates out of a 30-year-old office and warehouse building in Adams Center.

The company has offices in Texas, Florida, Virginia, Atlanta, Puerto Rico and in the United Arab Emirates, with plans to enter the European market, Mr. McNeely said.

“We’ve had growth every year,” he said.

Mr. McNeely’s father, Richard, began the company in 1989 as a road markings contractor when he decided to go to business with his son, Calvin, and his wife, Rhonda. John McNeely joined in the family business in 1991.

Four years later, the company completed its first airport work when it was awarded a contract for airfield markings at Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield on Fort Drum.

Getting the Augsbury site ready for marketing took years, the mayor said. For about a decade, the village worked with the state Department of Environmental Conservation on cleaning up the site of environmental issues. The site is now “shovel-ready,” he said.

Previously, Hi-Lite looked at constructing a bigger project — that included a hangar and operations building — at the planned business park at the airport.

But David J. Zembiec, the deputy CEO of the Jefferson County Local Development Corp., said the company decided to go to Sackets Harbor instead because the Augsbury site is ready to go.

The JCLDC was concerned in losing Hi-Lite to sites in two other states that had been courting the company before the company decided to stay local, he said.

GOUVERNEUR — Two Gouverneur men were jailed on felony charges Thursday night after being accused by village police of breaking into White’s Lumber and stealing a flat-screen television from a River Street residence.

Brent M. McIntosh, 26, and Garrad P. Rusho, 21, allegedly broke into White’s Lumber Inc., 71 Depot St. at approximately 9:06 p.m. Wednesday and then fled the store on foot, police said. The break-in was discovered after a business alarm was reported to police.

The two were found by Watertown City Police at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the city of Watertown. They were turned over to the Gouverneur police department and each was charged with third-degree burglary, a Class D felony.

Both are also charged in connection with a residential burglary at 63 River St. Police said the homeowner discovered the burglary had taken place late Monday or early Tuesday and that a 60-inch flat screen TV was missing. They each face second-degree burglary, a Class C felony and fourth-degree grand larceny a Class E felony, charges.

Mr. McIntosh was also charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property after an investigation revealed he possesed property stolen Wednesday from a residence at 183 Grove St.

Both were arraigned before Gouverneur Town Justice Travis Dann and remanded to the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility in lieu of $7,500 bail or $15,000 bond. Village police were assisted by state police.

WATERTOWN — During his brief appearance in Jefferson County Court Friday morning, a Fort Drum staff sergeant accused of killing his wife and a State Trooper pleaded not guilty to all of the 55 counts lodged against him in a grand jury indictment, including first-degree murder.

Justin D. Walters, 33, submitted the plea through his attorney. Walters is accused of shooting his wife Nichole V., 27, multiple times at their home on July 9, and injuring her friend Rebecca Finkle.

Trooper Joel R. Davis responded to the incident, and Walters allegedly shot him in the chest. Several of Trooper Davis’ colleagues and a relative were at Friday morning’s arraignment.

Walters’ attorney Edward F. Narrow said he would file a notice to use “mental disease or defect” as an affirmative defense for his client.

In the weeks leading to the shooting, Walters posted to Facebook about death, getting treatment at Fort Drum’s Warriors in Transition Unit and frustrations with the Army.

He had been in the Army for 10 years and was deployed to Afghanistan twice.

In July, Mr. Narrow said that he believed “The U.S. Army doesn’t spend all that much money on soldiers’ post-deployment suffering from psychological problems from being engaged with enemy combatants.”

On Friday, Mr. Narrow said, “The fact that he’s been indicted does not indicate his guilt. My client still enjoys a presumption of innocence, and it’s up to the District Attorney’s Office to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Walters will continue to be held in the Metro-Jefferson Public Safety Building without bail.

PORT LEYDEN — A Port Leyden parolee on Tuesday was accused of growing marijuana at his home.

Lewis County sheriff’s deputies charged Terry L. Hubbard, 60, of 3129 Canal St., with unlawful growing of cannabis. He is to answer that charge in Port Leyden Village Court and was later sent to Lewis County Jail on a parole violation.

Deputies said that, while assisting a state parole officer with a home visit, they found five marijuana plants at the residence.

Mr. Hubbard was released from prison in December 2014 after serving 12½ years on a first-degree sodomy conviction from Oneida County Court.

DEXTER — In a Friday press release, the General Brown Central School District Board of Education announced it had selected a new district superintendent.

Barbara J. Case of the George Junior Republic Union Free School District in Freeville will assume her superintendent duties on Jan. 1.

The board will formally appoint Mrs. Case at its Nov. 13 meeting.

Mrs. Case is the current principal for grades 7 through 12 at her school and has previously worked in the Central New York Regional Information Center and Groton Central School District.

She was one of three finalists selected by the Board in October, along with Aditya Joseph Dhara of the Syracuse City School District and Regina C. Yeo of Clifton-Fine.

Jamie A. Moesel was appointed interim superintendent in June after the district had to restart its search.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was dishonorably discharged from the Army by a military judge on Friday, but received no prison time for desertion and endangering troops, ending a drama that began more than eight years ago in war-torn Afghanistan.

At the sentencing hearing, the military judge, Col. Jeffery R. Nance of the Army, also reduced Bergdahl’s rank to private and required him to forfeit $1,000 a month of his pay for 10 months.

The sentencing took only minutes: The judge entered the courtroom, read the verdict, and left shortly after. Nance did not explain the reasoning for the sentence that he imposed.

The sentence will be reviewed by Gen. Robert B. Abrams, who convened the court-martial, and has the power to lessen the punishment. If the final sentence still includes a punitive discharge, it will then automatically be reviewed by the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals.

Politics dogged the case from the start. The Obama administration embraced Bergdahl — the national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, said that he had served with “honor and distinction — a portrayal that angered Congressional Republicans. Then, last year, Donald Trump made Bergdahl a staple of this campaign speeches, denouncing him as a “dirty rotten traitor” and calling for him to be executed.

Trump, who is beginning a trip to Asia, quickly criticized the verdict. “The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our Country and our Military,” he said on Twitter.

Bergdahl was 23 and a private first class when he walked off his base in eastern Afghanistan in June 2009. Army investigators would later characterize his departure as a delusional effort to hike to a larger base and cause enough of a stir that he would get an audience with a senior officer to report what he felt were problems in his unit.

But the soldier, who is now 31, was captured by the Taliban within hours, and would spend five years as a prisoner, his treatment worsening after every attempt he made to escape. He was beaten with copper cables, and held in isolation in a metal cage less than 7-feet square. He suffered dysentery for most of his captivity, and cleaned feces off his hands with his own urine so that he could eat enough bread to survive.

The military searched for him, and several troops were wounded during search missions. One of them, Sgt. 1st Class Mark Allen, was shot through the head and lost the ability to walk, talk or take care of himself, and now has minimal consciousness. His wife, Shannon, testified that he is not even able to hold hands with her any more. On a separate rescue mission, Senior Chief Petty Officer Jimmy Hatch, a Navy SEAL, suffered a leg wound that would require 18 surgical procedures and end his long career in special operations.

Bergdahl — he was promoted while in captivity — was freed in 2014 when the Obama administration exchanged five Taliban detainees at Guantánamo Bay for him, setting off a political furor that still reverberates. Congressional Republicans were angered by the release of Taliban prisoners and by the way the Obama administration portrayed the sergeant.

Army investigators quickly dismissed claims that troops had died searching for Bergdahl, or that he had intended to defect to the Taliban. They suggested that he could be prosecuted for desertion and for some lesser crimes. But in March 2015, the Army raised the stakes, accusing him not only of desertion but also of misbehavior before the enemy, an ancient but rarely charged crime punishable by up to life in prison. In this case, the misbehavior was endangering the troops who were sent to search for him.

Even so, the sergeant’s defense seemed to have some momentum. The Army’s chief investigator on the case testified at Bergdahl’s preliminary hearing that he did not believe any jail time was warranted, and the preliminary hearing officer suggested that the whole episode might have been avoided “had concerns about Sergeant Bergdahl’s mental health been properly followed up.” But the four-star general in charge of the case at Fort Bragg ordered that Bergdahl face a court-martial on both charges.

Once Trump was inaugurated, Bergdahl’s defense team, led by Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, demanded that the case be dismissed. There was no way the sergeant could receive a fair trial, his lawyers said, since everyone in the military justice system now reported to Trump as commander in chief.

Nance labeled Trump’s comments about Berdahl “disturbing” but declined to throw out the case. Then, last month, Trump seemed to endorse his earlier sentiments about Bergdahl, saying, “I think people have heard my comments in the past.”

After another protest by the defense, Nance ruled that he would consider the president’s comments as evidence in mitigation as he deliberated on a sentence.

People could conclude, the judge explained, that the president had “wanted to make sure that everyone remembered what he really thinks should happen” to Bergdahl.

During the sentencing hearing, Bergdahl took the stand and apologized for his actions, saying that he never intended for anyone to get hurt, and that he grieved “for those who have suffered and their families.”

He added, “I’m admitting I made a horrible mistake.”

The lead Army prosecutor, Maj. Justin Oshana, drew a comparison between Bergdahl and those who were hurt through his actions.

“It wasn’t a mistake,” Oshana said of the sergeant’s decision to walk off his base. “It was a crime.”

Responding to defense testimony about how captivity had left Bergdahl with pain that he still struggles with, Oshana noted that at least the sergeant is able to talk about it. Allen is constantly in pain, too, he said, but no longer possesses the ability to describe it.

“Sgt. Bergdahl does not have a monopoly on suffering as a result of his choices,” Oshana added, asking the judge to sentence Bergdahl to 14 years in a military prison.

The defense argued that Bergdahl had already suffered a severe penalty for his crimes by being tortured during five years in captivity.

“It is undisputed that Sgt. Bergdahl paid a bitter price for the decision he made,” one of his lawyers, Capt. Nina Banks, told Nance. She said that a dishonorable discharge was appropriate, but asked that he be spared prison.

The defense argued that Bergdahl’s decision to walk away was influenced by a then-undiagnosed severe personality disorder.

Banks also told the judge that the harsh comments Trump made on the campaign trail meant that the sergeant’s persecution did not stop when he was freed from captivity.

“Sgt. Bergdahl has been punished enough,” Banks said.

LERAY — A motorcyclist who was critically injured in a car-motorcycle crash Thursday was reported to be in stable condition as of Friday morning, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department.

Luke Grossman was airlifted to Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse and treated for internal injuries after he was struck by a car operated by Frankie Borja at 5:12 p.m. Both operators were driving south on State Route 3 when Mr. Borja, of Watertown, attempted to pass a slowing vehicle. Mr. Grossman, of Gobles, Mich., was struck by Mr. Borja and ejected from his motorcycle as he was attempting to turn left into a driveway.

Mr. Borja was issued tickets for following too closely and unsafe passing.

The Black River Fire Department and Black River and Guilfoyle ambulance squads assisted at the scene.

Samantha Eubanks was taking care of six children in her Dearborn, Michigan, home one morning in late September when she heard a noise upstairs.

Her 3-year-old son, she discovered, had found one of her husband’s handguns. The toddler pulled the trigger, shooting two other 3-year-old children - one in the face and the other in the shoulder, prosecutors said, according to the Detroit Free Press.

The two wounded children were rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but are now recovering in their homes. One of them lost an eye, and has undergone numerous surgeries, local news station WDIV reported.

On Thursday, authorities filed charges against Eubanks and her husband, Timothy Eubanks, 32. Eubanks, who ran an unlicensed day care facility in her house, knew her husband’s weapons were in the second-floor bedroom, prosecutors told the Free Press. Timothy Eubanks left the home that morning knowing that he left two handguns unsecured upstairs, prosecutors said.

The wife faces 12 counts of second degree child abuse and two counts of felony firearm, while her husband faces six counts of second degree child abuse.

They were both arraigned Thursday, and each could be sentenced to 10 years in prison if found guilty. Samantha Eubanks appeared on the verge of tears during the court hearing, according to a video captured by WDIV.

“The allegations in this case have set forth a tremendous tragedy,” 19th District Court Judge Gene Hunt said at the arraignment. “And the tragedy, although not intentional, was the result of reckless disregard for the safety of the children.”

The children shot in the home will require “long-term care,” Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad said in a news conference Thursday.

“With these types of injuries, they just don’t go away,” Haddad said in the news conference. “Physically they’re going to heal up but they’re not going to go away.”

The Eubanks have six children of their own. Two of them - the couple’s 3-year-old twin boys - were in the family’s home at the time of the shooting, prosecutors told the Free Press. At least three of the others were at school at the time. The Eubanks’ six children are now staying with other family members.

The couple is prohibited from having any contact with the victims and their families. They are not allowed to have any unsupervised contact with children or travel outside of the state of Michigan, the judge said at the arraignment. Bond was set at $20,000 for each of them.

“I will continue to state emphatically and often that it is extremely dangerous to have firearms in a home accessible to children,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said, according to WDIV. “It is an understatement to say that this cannot and should not ever be tolerated.”

In Thursday’s news conference, Haddad said he was still “deeply troubled” by what happened.

“That toddler apparently knew how to fire that weapon,” he said. “The fact that the weapon was in proximity where someone very small could get it is totally unacceptable.”

He said that all gun owners have an obligation to keep those around them safe.

“Gun safety across America is a grave concern for me, given the number of guns, the number of accidental deaths that occur every day,” Haddad added. “I think we have to be a more accountable nation when it comes to gun safety.”

Neighbors of the Eubanks family said they had previously complained about the unlicensed day care home.

“I’ve seen them out in the backyard playing in their diapers . . . five or six kids at a time out there, maybe even more,” neighbor Carolyn Rittenberry told WDIV. “A lot of times it’s just the other - her older children - watching them.”

But Samantha Eubanks’ sister, Ashley Escobedo, told WXYZ that she wasn’t running a day care, per say. She never advertised her babysitting as a business, and she charged parents less than what a day care would cost.

“As of right now she just wanted to help family and friends,” Escobedo said, adding that many of them are single parents.

Escobedo said she was stunned to hear about the shooting, because her sister “hates guns.”

Timothy Eubanks’ cousin, Jarrett Schmidt, was also surprised, he told WDIV. He has previously allowed Samantha Eubanks to care for his daughter, and is confident that his cousin, who is a hunter, would never leave his guns out within reach of children, he said.

“I’d be shocked, because he keeps everything hidden,” Schmidt said. “He keeps everything out because he has kids. He’s a responsible parent.”

WASHINGTON — An anti-immigrant group led by white nationalist Richard B. Spencer was told Thursday that it could not hold its annual conference in a federal office building, just blocks from the White House, because of security concerns raised by the building’s management company.

The decision prompted new questions over when, and how, nativist groups are allowed to speak in public spaces.

Spencer is the president of the National Policy Institute, which promotes itself as a “research and educational foundation.” It had planned to hold its meeting Nov. 19 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in downtown Washington, where the conference took place last year.

Spencer, who lives in the Washington area, did not respond to a request for comment Thursday. He told The Washington Post that he was “shocked” when he learned that the building turned down his request to use its space, saying that it seemed “to be a First Amendment issue.”

It is not the first time Spencer’s group has asked to hold an event on public property — or, at least, in places that receive federal funds — and been turned away. But it underscores the simmering debate over giving ground for Spencer and his following to gather.

Michigan State University, Ohio State University and Pennsylvania State University have all recently denied Spencer the space to speak on campus. But he was permitted to book a speaking venue last month at the University of Florida — although it led to a campuswide outcry and a state of emergency declaration by Gov. Rick Scott.

The right to reserve event space at the Reagan building comes with its own idiosyncrasies.

Owned by the General Services Administration, it is the first and only federal building dedicated to government and private use. The Reagan building is operated by Trade Center Management Associates, a private firm that oversees event spaces in the sprawling complex.

Debra Cope, a spokeswoman for the management group, said the Reagan building “is unique in that it is a public-private partnership that operates differently from other federal buildings.”

In a statement, a GSA spokeswoman said that the agency does not have the authority to consider requests to hold events in the part of the building that Spencer sought to reserve.

The building management’s misgivings are partly a response to last year’s conference, which drew hundreds of protesters and required dozens of police officers to control the crowd. Cope described “violent incidents,” arrests and threats to building employees during that protest, and noted that the building was damaged in some places. Additionally, she said, Spencer’s meeting and the protests against it disrupted another event in the building that was taking place at the same time.

Last year’s commotion did not deter Spencer’s plans to return to the site for this year’s meeting. In August, he urged supporters to “join us in Washington” in an email promoting the conference at the Reagan building.

That same month, Spencer was a keynote speaker at a white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in a city park. A 32-year-old woman, Heather D. Heyer, was killed when one of the protesters plowed his car into a crowd of people who were holding a counterdemonstration against the white nationalists.

The Reagan building management said in a statement that it rejected Spencer’s application in part because of the National Policy Institute’s participation in the Charlottesville protests.

Spencer may have a valid complaint about being barred from speaking in a space owned by the government, said Laura Beth Nielsen, a professor at Northwestern University and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. But, she said, “that does not mean he has a winning case.”

“One thing most people don’t know: The First Amendment only prohibits the government from restricting your speech,” said Nielsen, who specializes in matters of hate speech and First Amendment rights. “The question is, ‘How do you think about the kind of speech that might pose a threat of violence? Whose obligation is it to secure the space?’”

“The government can restrict speech when they think the person is going to incite lawless activity,” she added. “It’s not just that it can. It might be obligated to.”

Thursday’s decision could hint at a more theatrical standoff between Spencer and the federal government in the future — especially if taxpayers have to pay the bill for the police and other security forces to keep his events under control.

“Of course the state can’t stop that person from speaking,” Nielsen said. “But what’s our financial and moral obligation to give that speech a platform when it would be really expensive to do that safely?”

The following property sales were recorded in Jefferson County clerk’s office Oct. 24, 2017:

Town of Clayton: 3.4 acres, Grindstone Island, Saint Lawrence River LLC, Hilton Head, S.C., sold to Two Points Holding LLC, Annadale-On-Hudson $359,000

City of Watertown: 0.342 acres, Mullin Street, Anthony M. Neddo, Watertown, as referee for Steven G. Munson, sold to Wells Fargo Bank N.A., as trustee for Delta Funding Corp., Coppell, Texas $163,559

City of Watertown: 0.19 acres, California Avenue, Debra Streeter and Marjorie R. Augustine, both of Watertown, sold to Corey C. Boulio, Watertown $58,000

City of Watertown: No acreage listed, South Rutland Street, Watertown Savings Bank, Watertown, sold to Michael Timothy Bourne, Elfleda L. Thompson and Stacey A. Demland, Watertown $42,000

Town of Lyme: 6.07 acres, County Route 179, Dewayne K. Benney, Chaumont, Veronica A. Benney, Chaumont, Ginger M. Young, Chaumont, Janette K. Backus, Brownville and Kerry D. Benney, Chaumont, sold to Jimmy C. Swearinger and Ashley L. Swearinger, Watertown $167,500

Town of Theresa: 21 acres, George Road, Robert Funda and Robert Funda Jr., Redwood, sold to Kyle Felder and Carrie Felder, Plessis $1,000

Town of Antwerp: No acreage listed, County Route 24, Christopher J. Ferguson, Watertown, sold to Kirk Delaney, Antwerp $48,000

Town of Champion: 6.85 acres, County Route 47, John W. Parker, Deferiet, sold to John Fitzsimmons, Carthage $6,800

Town of Alexandria: 0.28 acres, Dingman Road, Thomas F. Certo and Jacklynn Certo, Manlius, sold to Mollyland LLC, Jackson, Miss. $735,000

Village of Theresa: 0.06 acres, English Settlement Road, Brenda Rice, Theresa, and Lisa Bassett, Theresa, as co-administrators of Keith T. Carrio estate, sold to Roger A. Schafer Jr., Watertown $61,800

Village of Dexter: 168 acres, Grant Street, Klint E. Kuhlman and Lindsay A. Kuhlman, Dexter, sold to Steven Dedios Ponce and David Lawyer, Sierra Vista, Ariz. $310,000

Village of Carthage: 0.46 acres, 128 North Washington St., Harry M. Gooder and Glenda Gooder, Carthage, sold to Jesse Gomez, Watertown $164,300

Town of Alexandria: 0.33 acres, Wellesley Island, Gertrude M. Allen, as trustee of Robert J. Allen Trust, Clinton, sold to Michael J. Allen and Judith A. Allen, New Hartford $448,000

Town of Henderson: 2.01 acres, Light House Road, Thomas M. Sullivan, Watertown, Sharon MacCue, Brasher Falls, and Sandra S. Anderson, Grand Rapids, Minn. sold to Thomas M. Sullivan and Diane E. Sullivan, Watertown $70,000

City of Watertown: No acreage listed, 211 Harewood Ave., Keybank N.A., Cleveland, Ohio, sold to Antonio Luciani and Jean Luciani, Watertown $49,700

The following property sales were recorded in Jefferson County clerk’s office Oct. 25, 2017:

Town of Clayton: No acreage listed, 16587 Lowe Road, Chaumont, Mark G. Gebo, Watertown, sold to Federal National Mortgage Corp. (Fannie Mae), Beaverton, Ore. $106,268

Village of Alexandria Bay: 0.32 acres, Anthony Street, GLA Marina LLC, Tully, sold to Harbor Villas Inc., Alexandria Bay $20,000

Town of Pamelia: No acreage listed, Lot 40 Liberty Avenue, Liberty Residential Subdivision, Sciuga Corp., Solvay, sold to Christian L. Truyenque and Anastacia F. Truyenque, Elmwood Park, N.J. $215,643

Village of Sackets Harbor: 0.59 acres, Monroe Street, Kenneth A. Schwarz, Watertown, sold to Evan Zalenski and Hannah Zalenski, Sackets Harbor $190,000

Town of Brownville: No acreage or address listed, Robert J. Stojetz, Aurora, Ohio, sold to Sharon M. Foster and Kim M. Foster, Carthage $150,000

Town of Alexandria: 1.17 acres, state Route 287, Galo Salvatore Rizzo and Kelley Rizzo, Redwood, sold to Harry M. Gooder and Glenda J. Gooder, Carthage $166,000

Town of Philadelphia: 0.18 acres, Main Street, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., sold to Robert G. Rottner and Iris E. Rottner, Henderson $25,000

Town of Wilna: 23.11 acres, no address listed, Kenneth R. Gleason Jr. and Cynthia S. Gleason, Black River, sold to Anthony C. Genito, Carthage $122,500

City of Watertown: No acreage listed, 649 Boyd St., Lisa Weldon, Watertown, as referee for Lawrence Danza, sold to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as trustee for Mastr Specialized Loan Trust, c/o Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC, West Palm Beach, Fla. $112,888

Village of Glen Park: 0.114 acres, Main Street, Chelsea L. Gardner, Glen Park, sold to Adrean L. Carnegie and Ashley M. Kirby, Watertown $115,250

Town of Worth: 1.5 acres, Waite Road, Richard Joseph Pomerville, Great Bend, and Barbara J. Pomerville, Watertown, and Scott Wilson and Elizabeth A. Wilson, Rodman $1,700

The following property sales were recorded in Jefferson County clerk’s office Oct. 26, 2017:

City of Watertown: No acreage listed, 513 Mohawk St., Allan Bellinger, Watertown, sold to H&Z Evans Mills LLC, Watertown $30,000

Town of Cape Vincent: 0.08 acres, Lot No. 7, John J. Corso and Sheryl Corso, Cape Vincent, sold to Michael Harding and Nancy A. Harding, West Abington Township, Pa. $185,000

Town of Lyme: 3.89 acres, Old Town Springs Road, Louis J. Stabins, Spring Hill, Fla., sold to Larry Walker Jr., Chaumont $70,600

Town of Theresa: 5 acres, state Route 37, Paul Fabianek, Bratislava, Slovakia, executor of John Fabianek estate, Evans Mills, sold to Nathan Williams, Theresa $30,000

City of Watertown: No acreage listed, 221 Thompson Blvd., Patricia O’Leary and Joseph D. O’Leary Jr., Watertown, sold to Robert D. Foy, Sanford, N.C. $185,500

The following property sales were recorded in Jefferson County clerk’s office Oct. 27, 2017:

Town of Rutland: 0.045 acres, Burnash Avenue, Lisa Weldon, Watertown, as referee for Robert G. Morse II and Sonny Shea, sold to Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Nashville, Tenn. $125,189

Town of Watertown: 6.179 acres, County Route 65, Audrey M. Olin, Dexter, sold to Brittany S. Walker, Dexter $0

City of Watertown: No acreage listed, 541 Water St., U.S. Bank N.A., as trustee for Banc of America Funding, Coppell, Texas, sold to H&Z Evans Mills LLC, Watertown $14,900

Town of Clayton: No acreage listed, 15382 County Route 11, Janice K. Youngs, St. Johns, Fla,, sold to George and Heather Sanford, LaFargeville $14,000

Town of Theresa: No acreage listed, 39859 Hyde Lake Road, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C., sold to Kyle Felder and Carrie Felder, Plessis $29,000

Village of Clayton: 0.13 acres, River Shore Drive, Scott A. Ketterer, Parkasie, Pa., sold to James Patrick Crosby and Irene S. Crosby, Brevard, N.C. $35,000

City of Watertown: No acreage given, 522 Cayuga Ave., Wayne Gaige and Sandra Gaige, Chaumont, sold to Brennan Monnat and Brandon Widrick, Croghan $113,400

Village of Theresa: 0.22 acres, 212 Pine St., Community Bank, N.A., Olean, sold to Lisa Ann Watts, Cortland $12,000

Town of Alexandria: Two parcels, 57.72 acres, Janae Zimmer, Redwood, sold to Estate of Herbert C. King, North Wildwood, N.J. $17,500

Town of Henderson: 0.051 acres, shore of Lake Ontario, Thomas V. Apicelli, Fayetteville, sold to Charles L. Eastman and Diana L. Young, Mannsille $235,000

The following property sales were recorded in Jefferson County clerk’s office Oct. 30, 2017:

Town of Pamelia: 1.35 acres, County Route 54 (Military Road), Mackenzie Jobson, Watertown, sold to Brenda Loomis, Watertown $20,000

Town of Clayton: Three parcels, 0.45 acres, 16937 Hilltop Lane, Quicken Loans Inc., Detroit, Mich., sold to Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Cleveland, Ohio $0

Village of Sackets Harbor: 0.344 acres, Dodge Avenue, Steven B. Lester and Terpsie E. Toon, Lake Placid, sold to John E. Pender and Morgan C. Rundle, Evans Mills $124.000

City of Watertown: 0.119 acres, Mullin Street, Lana Taylor, Watertown, sold to Joseph M. Wilson and Ashley Mae W. Wilson, Sevema Park, Md. $178,500

Village of Theresa: 0.5 acres, 311 Mill St., Laura Ann Manganaro, Theresa, sold to Brodie M. Woodward, Evans Mills $115,000

Village of Cape Vincent: 6.869 acres, Broadway, Brucy C. Taylor and Lynn O. Taylor as trustees for Taylor Family Trust, San Rafael, Calif., sold to 596 W. Broadway LLC, San Rafael, Calif. $0

Village of Brownville: 0.41 acres, Patrician Lane, Timothy J. Nolan and Nanci M. Nolan, Watertown, sold to Matthew P. Hedrick and Susan L. Hedrick, Sackets Harbor $219,000

Town of Brownville: 1.89 acres, 9338 Middle Road, Matthew S. Lee, Watertown, sold to Joy A. Lee, Dexter $57,950

Town of Brownville: No acreage listed, Depauville Road, Castlerock 2017 LLC, White Plains, sold to Robert Genter, Clayton $19,000

Village of Black River: 0.96 acres, Huntington Street, Dorothy A. Castor, Adams, sold to Christopher J. Sparacino and Natalie A. Sparacino, Carthage $95,000

Town of Orleans: 15.001 acres, state Route 180, Matthew Stephen Fuller and Jill Alice Fuller, Tucson, Ariz., sold to Dean T. Morrow and Barbara E. Morrow, LaFargeville $2,500

Town of Pamelia: No acreage listed, Lot 21, Liberty Avenue, Jamey Richard Walker, Watertown, sold to Brandon Dixon and Blythe Malinda Dixon, Watertown $238,000

Town of Alexandria: 0.24 acres, West Avenue, Jane S. Stevens-Denny, Cazenovia, sold to John Radde and Marua Coffin, Nederland, Colo. $220,000

Town of Lyme: 0.76 acres, Guffin Farm estates, Hallock Family LLC, Sarasota, Fla., sold to Mark Hershowitz and Tanna S. Fleming, Watertown $70,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 1, 2017:

Town of Croghan: 6222 Bear Paw Lane, Richard R. Davis, sold to Richard Buchanan $65,000

Town of Denmark: 10366 State Route 26, Ronald K. Pridell, sold to Loren F. Bush Jr. $35,000

Town of Osceola: 1350 Gregory Road, Timothy G. Moore, sold to Thomas Dylan Conover $37,500

Town of Lowville: 5841 Waters Road, Mark G. Sandri, sold to Dominic Dobbs $57,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 6, 2017:

Town of Lowville: 7717 State Route 12, Merritt Jones, sold to Greg R. Essenlohr $145,000

Town of Croghan: 7618 Belfort Road, Lee R. Zehr, sold to Becky Maxson $0

Village of Lowville: 5339 Rural Ave., Charles C. Terrillion sold to David A. Stokes $53,110

Town of Watson: 6770 Independence Dr., Greg R. Essenlohr, sold to Stacie A. Lawton $119,500

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 7, 2017:

Town of Croghan: 9615 Lewis St., Bernard E. Nortz, sold to Rachel N. Grunert $72,000

Town of Diana: 5710 Old State Road, Federal Home Loan Mortgage, sold to Zachary Strough $33,000

Town of Diana: 13347 Henry Road, Heather Banek f/k/a Smith, sold to Barbara L. Gardner $12,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 9, 2017:

Village of Castorland: 9605 Bowman St., Secretary of Veterans Affairs, sold to Lillian Wheeler $35,000

Town of Martinsburg: 6562 Oliver Place, William J. Gibbs, sold to Joseph B.Fox $75,000

Town of Denmark: Mud Street Road, Douglas Moser, sold to Moserdale Dairy LLC $1

Town of Pinckney: Whitesville Road, Emanuel Verdi, sold to Sean Boyle $46,000

Town of Pinckney: Gardner Road, Mark B. Wisniski, sold to Peter C. Olivia $90,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 11, 2017:

Town of Diana: North Croghan Road, Gary L. Williamson, sold to Thomas P. Delles $55,000

Town of Greig: 5524 North Shore Road, Burkhard Lakehouse LLC, sold to Gerald A. Dwyer $0

Town of New Bremen: 9575 Addison Ave., Nathan Brouty, sold to Justin Evan $169,600

Town of New Bremen: 6619 Widricks Trailer Park, Robert S. Widrick, sold to Terri L. Weller $0

Town of Turin: Lee Gulf Trail, Janet L. Barniak, sold to Paul K. Gothe $40,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 12, 2017:

Village of Lowville: 5599 Trinity Ave. Ext., Adam H. Petrie, sold to John M. Purvines $148,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 13, 2017:

Town of Watson: 9666 Northwoods Dr., Gertrude S. Embree, sold to Number 4 Partners LLC $1

Village of Lyons Falls: 3829 Franklin St., John M. McDonald, sold to Courtney L. Hoskins $31,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 14, 2017:

Town of Diana: 4110 Factory Road, Brian P. Clarke, sold to John Scott Kerns $193,000

Town of Greig: 7951 Plato Road, Richard J. Burkett, sold to Michael Rath $60,000

Town of Leyden: 2964 Canal St., Robert A. MacKenzie, sold to Raymond L. VanCourt $25,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 15, 2017:

Town of Croghan: 6451 Old State Road, Earl L. Pate Estate, sold to Ricky L. Houppert $40,000

Town of West Turin: 3116 Fish Creek Road, Frederick J. Smith, sold to Laurie A. Makuch $0

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 18, 2017:

Town of Leyden: 2533 State Route 12, William T. Ritter Estate, sold to Mark G. Sweet $38,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 19, 2017:

Town of West Turin: Page Road, Timothy L. Moore, sold to Craig Jenks $2,000

Village of Lowville: 5339 Dayan St., Rosalee H. Boissy Estate, sold to Marc R. Essenlohr $200,000

Town of Lyonsdale: 8076 Moose River Road, Vanessa M. Norton, sold to Mark J. Ostrander $15,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 22, 2017:

Town of Greig: 4230 Lyons Falls Road, Gyde A. Gydesen, sold to John P. Pearson $159,900

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 25, 2017:

Town of Greig: 7936 Stonehouse Lane, John A. Gasser, sold to The Nancy L. Giordano-Ramos Trust $233,000

The following property sales were recorded in Lewis County clerk’s office Sept. 26, 2017:

Town of Watson: 6755 River Road, The Mathys Family Irrevocable Trust, sold to Tyler D. Halladay $85,500

COPENHAGEN — A town of Harrisburg woman was charged Tuesday with making meth at her residence.

Jaime Kloster, 34, of 3929 Vary Road, was charged by Lewis County sheriff’s deputies with third-degree unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine.

Deputies said they responded to the residence to assist a county probation officer and confirmed possible meth-making materials present. The state Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response team was called in to remove the materials.

Ms. Kloster was arraigned in Lowville Town Court and sent to Lewis County Jail, Lowville, on $7,500 bail.

On Friday, she appeared in County Court on an alleged probation violation, and Judge Daniel R. King sent her back to jail without bail.

WADDINGTON — A Green Island man was charged Friday in a more-than five-year-old robbery after his DNA turned up as a match.

St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Detectives Friday charged James I. Paquin 30, of 11 High St., with the violent felony second-degree robbery.

In a news released Friday, detectives said on June 14, 2012, at the Kunoco Foot Mart at 150 Lincoln Ave., in Waddington, they investigated a strong-armed robbery with deputies, state police and members of the U.S. Border Patrol.

At the time, the suspect was described as a white male dressed in a black colored hooded sweatshirt and ski mask. He reportedly took $400 dollars in cash and was confronted by the female employee.

“A physical struggle ensued and the suspect had bitten the female victim in the arm and had kicked her in the ribs,” Sheriff’s Detective Sean P. O’Brien wrote. Detectives said a DNA sample of the bite mark was collected from the victim at the time and it analyzed and a “John Doe” DNA profile was extracted and stored with the assistance of the New York State Police Crime Lab in Albany.

The victim was treated at a local hospital and released.

“Over the next several months, all leads had been exhausted,” Mr. O’Brien said.

But with “long, hard work” and a bit of luck, Mr. O’Brien said they turned up a suspect.

“Upon a thorough review of the case in the fall of 2016, it was determined that some of the people of interest had DNA samples on file and some did not,” Mr. O’Brien wrote. “It had come to the attention that James Paquin whom was a person of interest had been convicted of an unrelated crime after the date of the robbery and his DNA was not yet on file.”

With the assistance of state police in Latham, members of the Bureau of Criminal Investigations were able to locate and obtain a sample from Mr. Paquin by court order. After testing his DNA it was determined that Mr. Paquin could be the person who had bitten the women in the 2012 robbery.

Mr. Paquin was arrested in Latham on a Superior Court Warrant of Arrest and is being held in St. Lawrence County jail, Canton, without bail. He is scheduled to appear in St. Lawrence County Court next week.

Detectives were assisted by members of the State Police, St. Lawrence County District Attorney Investigator Daniel W. Manor Sr. and Assistant District Attorney Joshua A. HaberkornHalm.

WATERTOWN — State police charged Michael E. Swanson, 22, of Carthage, with fourth-degree grand larceny at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Salmon Run Mall.

Mr. Swanson was given an appearance ticket.

Additional information was not made available by state police.

LERAY — State police charged Shannon E. Drean, 42, of Watertown, with petit larcney at 4:05 p.m. Thursday at Walmart Supercenter, 25737 Route 11.

Ms. Drean was given an appearance ticket.

Additional details were not made available by state police.

WATERTOWN — During his brief appearance in Jefferson County Court Friday morning, a Fort Drum staff sergeant accused of killing his wife and a state trooper pleaded not guilty to all of the 55 counts lodged against him in a grand jury indictment, including first-degree murder.

Justin D. Walters, 33, submitted the plea through his attorney. Walters is accused of shooting his wife Nichole V., 27, multiple times at their home on July 9, and injuring her friend Rebecca Finkle.

Trooper Joel R. Davis responded to the incident, and Walters allegedly shot him in the chest. Several of Trooper Davis’ colleagues and a relative were at Friday morning’s arraignment.

Walters’ attorney Edward F. Narrow said he would file a notice to use “mental disease or defect” as an affirmative defense for his client.

In the weeks leading to the shooting, Walters posted to Facebook about death, getting treatment at Fort Drum’s Warriors in Transition Unit and frustrations with the Army.

He had been in the Army for 10 years and was deployed to Afghanistan twice.

In July, Mr. Narrow said that he believed “The U.S. Army doesn’t spend all that much money on soldiers’ post-deployment suffering from psychological problems from being engaged with enemy combatants.”

On Friday, Mr. Narrow said, “The fact that he’s been indicted does not indicate his guilt. My client still enjoys a presumption of innocence, and it’s up to the District Attorney’s Office to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Walters will continue to be held in the Metro-Jefferson Public Safety Building without bail.

CANTON — Union College defeated St. Lawrence University, 3-1, on Friday night in an ECAC Hockey men’s hockey game at Appleton Arena.

Cole Maier and Sebastian Vidmar each scored a goal in the second period for the Dutchmen (5-5, 3-0) and Zachary Emelifeonwu added a goal in the third period.

Freshman defenseman Jake Stevens scored a power-play goal with 1:26 left in the game for the Saints (1-8, 0-1) in their conference opener.

SYRACUSE — Three different players ran for touchdowns to lead the Whitesboro football team to a 34-14 victory over Indian River in the Section 3 Class A football championship game Friday night at the Carrier Dome.

Indian River ended its season with an 8-2 overall record, with both losses coming to the hands of Whitesboro (7-3), which won its third straight sectional title and advanced to next weekend’s state playoffs against an opponent to be determined.

Indian River has lost its last six games to Whitesboro, including three straight postseason losses, a streak that dates back to the start of the 2015 season. Indian River, which was denied its second Section 3 championship and first since 2014, is 21-2 against all other opponents over the last three seasons.

VOLNEY — The official grand opening of the 1886 Malt House in Oswego County was celebrated with a ceremony Thursday.

The state-of-the-art facility in Volney at the Sunoco ethanol site will work to meet the rising demand for malted barley that has been created by the rapidly growing beer industry statewide. This system will be capable of producing a diverse group of malted products for craft brewing industry demands.

Featuring a full in-house ASBC (American Society of Brewing Chemists), the malt operation is expected to produce more than 2,000 tons of top-notch malted barley sourced from New York state farms per year — that equates to more than 1.6 million gallons of beer.

New York has 13 other malt houses, but the 1886 Malt House is the largest.

“As the number of craft breweries in New York state continues to rise so does the demand for homegrown malt barley,” said Empire State Development President, CEO and Commissioner Howard Zemsky. “This investment in the 1886 Malt House will help area farmers and brewers meet client demand, further supporting the unprecedented growth of the industry statewide.”

The project included the transformation of the former Miller Brewing Co. plant, which closed more than 20 years ago, into a 30-metric-ton-per-week grain malting facility. The malting facility shares some administrative and logistical operations with owner and operator, oil giant Sunoco, which opened a corn-based ethanol production plant on the site in 2010.

“The 1886 Malt House grand opening symbolizes two years of collaboration and hard work by an inventive team here at the facility,” said 1886 Malt House Marketing Manager Erin Tones. “We are thrilled to be part of this growing industry, and even more excited to be sourcing our grain exclusively from New York farmers. We have developed relationships with growers across the state who are growing fantastic grain, and in turn we’ll be able to provide our craft beverage producers with high quality malt.”

To support the undertaking, Empire State Development has offered up to $700,000 through a CNY Rising Upstate Revitalization Initiative Grant. The effort is expected to result in the creation of eight new full-time jobs. The owners of the malt house have invested more than $12.5 million into the project.

The name, 1886 Malt House, references another era when beer making was big business in New York and is also a nod to the year the Statue of Liberty was officially dedicated in New York Harbor.

It was in 2012 that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed a farm brewing law fostering a more symbiotic relationship between local farmers and brewers that industry growth took off. Since the law passed, the number of New York state breweries has grown from 60 to more than 370.

“The opening of the 1886 Malt House could not have come at a better time for New York as the number of farm breweries and barley production continue to skyrocket throughout the state,” said State Liquor Authority Chairman Vincent Bradley. “The 1886 Malt House will help to ensure our craft brewers and farmers can meet the ever increasing demand for locally produced products made with locally grown ingredients.”

The growth of the craft beverage industry has helped boost the agricultural economy with more producers sourcing ingredients from local New York farms. According to Cornell University, the acreage of hops grown in New York state has more than doubled from 2013 to 2016, and the acreage of malting barley has increased by nearly 500 percent in the same three-year time period, from 336 to about 2,000 acres.

“It’s exciting to see all kinds of businesses — from malting houses like 1886 Malt House to local farms—benefiting from the resurgence of the state’s craft beverage industry,” said state Agriculture Commissioner Richard Ball. “More breweries and distilleries are using homegrown ingredients to manufacture unique beverages, which is great news for consumers and for the agricultural economy.”

“New York’s craft beverage industry is booming and the 1886 Malt House is ready to be part of this new chapter not only for craft beverages, but also for the hardworking farmers who grow the crops needed to support the industry,” said State Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton. “This facility is an important link between our farmers and craft beverage producers.”

“Not only is this facility providing jobs, but they are a vital link to the growing the craft beer industry in New York state,” said Assemblyman William A. Barclay, R-Pulaski. “Their capacity to produce the malted barley needed by the industry will assist hundreds of small businesses throughout the state.”

POTSDAM — State police on Tuesday charged Dean M. Lamphere Jr., 47, of Hopkinton, with driving while intoxicated. He was also cited with consumption of alcohol in a motor vehicle, failure to notify the state Department of Motor Vehicles of a change of address, passing a stop signal, failure to use designated lane, moving from lane unsafely and failure to signal.

Troopers said that at 11:20 p.m. on Pierrepont Avenue, Mr. Lamphere was driving a 2002 Saturn SL and was stopped for various traffic infractions. During the stop Mr. Lamphere was found with an open can of beer, refused to submit to field sobriety testing and refused to take a breath test to determine his blood alcohol content, troopers said.

Mr. Lamphere was arraigned in Canton Town Court and was released. State police were assisted by the Potsdam Police Department.

WADDINGTON — A Green Island man was charged Friday in a more-than five-year-old robbery after his DNA turned up as a match.

St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Detectives Friday charged James I. Paquin, 30, of 11 High St., with the violent felony second-degree robbery.

In a news release Friday, detectives said on June 14, 2012, at the Kunoco Foot Mart at 150 Lincoln Ave., in Waddington, they investigated a strong-armed robbery with deputies, state police and members of the U.S. Border Patrol.

At the time, the suspect was described as a white male dressed in a black colored hooded sweatshirt and ski mask. He reportedly took $400 in cash and was confronted by the female employee.

“A physical struggle ensued and the suspect had bitten the female victim in the arm and had kicked her in the ribs,” Sheriff’s Detective Sean P. O’Brien wrote. Detectives said a DNA sample of the bite mark was collected from the victim at the time and it was analyzed and a “John Doe” DNA profile was extracted and stored with the assistance of the New York State Police Crime Lab in Albany.

The victim was treated at a local hospital and released.

“Over the next several months, all leads had been exhausted,” Mr. O’Brien said.

But with “long, hard work” and a bit of luck, Mr. O’Brien said they turned up a suspect.

“Upon a thorough review of the case in the fall of 2016, it was determined that some of the people of interest had DNA samples on file and some did not,” Mr. O’Brien wrote. “It had come to the attention that James Paquin whom was a person of interest had been convicted of an unrelated crime after the date of the robbery and his DNA was not yet on file.”

With the assistance of state police in Latham, members of the Bureau of Criminal Investigations were able to locate and obtain a sample from Mr. Paquin by court order. After testing his DNA it was determined that Mr. Paquin could be the person who had bitten the woman in the 2012 robbery.

Mr. Paquin was arrested in Latham on a Superior Court Warrant of Arrest and is being held in St. Lawrence County jail, Canton, without bail. He is scheduled to appear in St. Lawrence County Court next week.

Detectives were assisted by members of the State Police, St. Lawrence County District Attorney Investigator Daniel W. Manor Sr. and Assistant District Attorney Joshua A. HaberkornHalm.