DEC employees assist residents with questions, permit applications
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...
View ArticleSt. Lawrence University receives largest donation in college’s history
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...
View ArticleResearchers study ill effects of secondhand smoke in Amish community
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...
View ArticleWhy these researchers think dinosaurs were minutes away from surviving...
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...
View ArticleCelebrating the armed forces
The Armed Forces Day Parade hit the streets Saturday in Watertown.
View ArticleSUNY Potsdam graduates over 800 students
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...
View ArticlePlane crashes in Colton, two passengers escape without injury
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...
View ArticlePolice charge Canton man with DWI
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...
View ArticleCoast Guard hosts open house
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...
View ArticleThree Catholic parishes looking at ‘linking’ Holy Family Church
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...
View Article‘Spider web’ of tourism trails begins to intertwine
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...
View ArticleTwo Ogdensburg men charged with making methamphetamine
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...
View ArticleSUNY Potsdam graduates
May 20Bachelor’s DegreesAdamsCourtney Whelan, business administrationAlexandria BayChristopher Vaphiadis, business administrationZachary Walti, criminal justice studiesChristopher Strough,...
View ArticleSUNY Canton graduates
May 13Bachelor’s Degree AdamsZoey N. SmithAlexandria BayNicholas R. SpeachBrasher FallsTyler V. SavageCantonMia BenjaminCape VincentStephen C. ByersCarthageChristopher J. GambleColtonJulie...
View ArticleNYS Attorney General joins coalition to protect ACA subsidies
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...
View ArticleCarthage Farmers Market to open for season Friday
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...
View ArticleLowville trio arrested for allegedly having meth-making materials during...
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...
View ArticleRepair work at Fort Drum gate expected to cause “significant...
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...
View ArticleWatertown woman admits to bringing bath salts into Jefferson County Jail
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...
View ArticleRiders, runners and community members will gather in support of the Oswego...
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,...
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