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Member-supported public radio serving northern New York, the Adirondacks, western Vermont and southeastern Ontario. Got a tip? [email protected] 📻 🎧
Canton, New York, USA
Joined March 2009
With the school year quickly approaching, many families in the Watertown City School District still don’t know if their children will be able to attend a Pre-K program or not. That's after the district cut dozens of spots without explanation.
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Without warning, the Watertown City School District cut the number of pre-k slots in the district for the upcoming school year.
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Plattsburgh's first-ever Michigan Fest kicks off at noon Saturday at the Clinton County Fairgrounds. Officials say it's a celebration of the hot-dog-and-meat-sauce regional delicacy and an opportunity to bring people together.
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The event celebrates the hot-dog-and-meat-sauce regional delicacy.
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Lacrosse will be an Olympic sport in 2028 for the first time in more than a century. But the sport's creators, the Haudenosaunee people, aren't allowed to compete as a nation.
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Sports journalist S.L. Price's new book centers the Haudenosaunee people and their national team's quest for inclusion in international competition in the story of lacrosse's past, present, and...
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The opening reception for "Joseph Warren and the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of America" will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Warren County Historical Society headquarters in Queensbury.
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“Joseph Warren and the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of America" at the Warren County Historical Society spotlights a forgotten founding father.
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The clawback of federal funding for public media represents a serious cut for the North Country's public television stations. Here's how they're responding 👇.
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With the rescission of public media funding, Mountain Lake PBS in Plattsburgh and WPBS in Watertown will lose about a third of their budgets.
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The U.S. military is reversing course - at least for now - on a plan to shut down ten ROTC programs around the country, including the one that serves all of the North Country, based at Clarkson University in Potsdam.
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Senator Chuck Schumer announced the Army's decision on Wednesday after pushback from local elected officials and community support.
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Longtime Glens Falls Post-Star editor wrote what he calls "a love letter to newspapers". A staged dramatic reading of the play sold out a string of shows this weekend.
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Ken Tingley's play about the Glens Falls Post-Star gives an insider's view of life inside a newsroom—just before deep cuts started to impair its work.
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The Clinton County District Attorney's Office says Chazz Johnson, now 25, tracked down and fatally shot 31-year-old Markus Dixon last September. He will soon begin a prison sentence of 25 years to life.
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Chazz Johnson, 25, will serve 25 years to life in prison for shooting and killing 31-year-old Markus Dixon.
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Nina Schoch has banded and tested loons for more than 25 years in the Adirondacks. She knows her loons! Hear what she has to say about the state of Adirondack loons as she prepares to move on to other work.
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The Adirondack loon population is healthier than it's been in decades, but various and climate change are still concerns.
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NY launched a new citizen science wildlife monitoring program this July, called Snapshot NY. It’s asking residents to participate in a statewide project that will use trail cameras to manage more than a dozen wildlife species.
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Snapshot NY aims to get trail cameras set up on private land across the state to manage over a dozen wildlife species.
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Volunteerism has been on the decline in the US for decades, and part of that is fewer young people volunteering. But JT Wint completely bucks that trend. He's devoted a lot of his 17-year-old-life to community service in his hometown of Lake Placid.
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JT Wint bucks the trend of volunteerism being on the decline.
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One of the biggest festivals in Canada kicks off tonight just north of the North Country. Go to Ottawa over the next ten days for the amazing Ottawa Blues Festival - a day pass gets you access to more than a dozen shows on four stages.
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The festival is way more blues, with country, pop, rock, punk, hip hop, and electronic artists performing. Some of the headliners include Shania Twain, Lainey Wilson, Green Day, and Sean Paul.
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An engineering firm has put forward three potential concepts for the cliffside property. Clinton County is now accepting public feedback on the future use of Clinton Community's 104-acre campus.
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The college's move to SUNY Plattsburgh this fall leaves behind a 104-acre property and multiple buildings.
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