Potsdam village officials approve budget with $17.15 per $1,000 property tax...
pPOTSDAM — After one last special meeting Monday, Village Board members unanimously approved a final budget for 2016-17, one which Mayor Reinhold J. Tischler considered to be...
View ArticleOgdensburg Wesleyan Church closing doors after 60 years
pOGDENSBURG — The Wesleyan Church at 31 David St., will close its door after Sunday’s worship service because it can no longer afford to stay afloat financially, according to the...
View ArticleJefferson County finance committee calling on state to pay for DA salary...
pThe Jefferson County Board of Legislators Finance Committee passed a resolution Tuesday night calling on the state to reimburse counties for mandated district attorney salary increases. /ppThe...
View ArticleBrantingham woman allegedly killed a cat owned by another person
pLOWVILLE — Cayla M. Wujek, 24, Brantingham, was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals on Feb. 16./ppState police allege Ms. Wujek intentionally killed a cat that was owned by another...
View ArticleNew York Times: St. Lawrence justice more a dark comedy than a courtroom drama
pALBANY — For the residents of St. Lawrence County, a rural territory on the Canadian border in northern New York, the news out of the district attorney’s office in recent years...
View ArticleTrump sweeps Tuesday primaries; Clinton takes Maryland and Delaware
pBusinessman Donald Trump has been projected as the winner in all five Republican presidential primaries held on Tuesday — a clean sweep that illustrates Trump’s dominance along...
View ArticleHow a Kentucky career woman began a second life as a bank robber
pMelinda Belleville stood outside a courtroom at Fayette District Court in Lexington, Ky., in 2012, shocked by what had just transpired./ppIt seemed like something off television, a plot similar to...
View ArticleTwo hurt when pickup truck crashes in I-81’s northbound lanes
pRICHLAND — A section of the northbound lanes of Interstate 81 are closed after a single-vehicle accident left two people with injuries./ppEmergency dispatchers in Oswego County say the...
View ArticleDEC to hold information session about Cape Vincent, Lyme wildlife area
pWATERTOWN — The state Department of Environmental Conservation will hold a public information session to discuss its management of the Ashland Flats Wildlife Management Area in Cape Vincent...
View ArticleEvans Mills duo accused of stealing jewelry, cashing bad check
pWATERTOWN — State police charged Shawna K. Goodenough, 22, and Garnett A. Goodenough, 24, both of 8817 N. Main St., Evans Mills, with third-degree grand larceny following a theft of jewelry...
View ArticleShipment of counterfeit shirts stopped at Alexandria Bay border
pALEXANDRIA BAY — Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized more than 1,700 counterfeit shirts, valued at more than $66,000./ppThe shirts were branded with the logos of Tapout...
View ArticleVermont fugitive discovered in Watertown
pWATERTOWN — State police charged Trenton McCray, 26, an inmate in the Watertown Correctional Facility, with being a fugitive from justice./ppTroopers said he was wanted in connection to a...
View ArticleStefanik sitting out Republican Convention
pU.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Willsboro, will not be attending the 2016 Republican Convention set to be held in Cleveland July 18-21./ppLenny Alcivar, a spokesman for Ms. Stefanik, said she...
View ArticleWith Haunted History Trail, New York invites ghost hunters; two local sites...
pNIAGARA FALLS — One of New York’s newest tourism ventures is more dare than invitation./ppThere’s the usual guide suggesting places to visit: Inns, museums,...
View ArticleNY state takes aim at invasive species in lakes, rivers
pALBANY — New York state is working to fight zebra mussels, the spiny waterflea and other invasive aquatic species by training boaters to stop the organisms from harming the...
View ArticleOne Adams Center man dead, another seriously injured after early morning...
pPARISH — An Adams Center man is dead and another is critically injured after a one-car accident around 3:15 this morning near Exit 33 of Interstate 81. /ppOswego County sheriff’s...
View ArticleGovernments struggle to enforce ‘living wage’ laws
pSEATTLE — States and cities whose lawmakers proudly passed “living wage” laws are finding it difficult to make sure employers actually pay their workers accordingly....
View ArticleSUNY Potsdam grad Renee Fleming, Rochester ensemble to perform in NYC Nov. 14
pROCHESTER — SUNY Potsdam graduate and Grammy-winning soprano Renee Fleming will perform with Rochester’s Eastman Philharmonia at Lincoln Center’s Allice Tully Hall...
View ArticleCareer education making a comeback in US high schools
pANTIOCH, Calif. — There was an emergency in Room 14. Three girls injured, one with a broken thighbone and maybe something more serious. Snapping on sterile gloves and kneeling before the...
View ArticleSUNY Potsdam’s fifth annual LoKo Festival to offer wide array of free art...
pPOTSDAM — A host of performances, projects and demonstrations will get underway during SUNY Potsdam’s fifth annual Lougheed-Kofoed Festival of the Arts, an event that is drawing...
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