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Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism releases 2024 leisure travel study results

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DEC Reminds Hikers Goodman Mountain Trail Remains Closed

Trail Closed to Protect Public Safety due to the presence of a bull moose The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today reminds hikers the temporary closure of the Goodman Mountain trail in the Horseshoe Lake Wild Forest in the town of Tupper Lake, remains in effect, DEC staff, accompanied by the New […]

Port Kent: A virtual walking tour on Wednesday, July 16

Abigail Eagan: The North Country’s First Female Eagle Scout

July 12, 2025 – West Chazy, N Y – Family, friends, community leaders, and members of Scouting America Troop 8039 gathered today at the North Country Veterans Association for the Eagle Scout Court of Honor ceremony for Abigail Eagan. A former Girl Scout, Abigail joined Troop 8039 in 2014 and has worked diligently to develop […]

Burlington begins construction on upgraded wastewater facility with groundbreaking ceremony

Good News for Lake Champlain too  Click here for the MYNBC5 Story 

‘We’ve lost everything’: Northeast Kingdom residents react and rebuild after a 3rd year of July flooding

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AGENDA TOWN BOARD REGULAR MEETING JULY 14, 2025 6:00 PM

Call Meeting to Order Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call  MOTION/DISCUSSION: To Accept Reports from all Departments: (Water/Sewer/Valcour; Highway; Town Clerk; Dog Control; Youth Department; Code/Zoning; Supervisor’s Report; Court; Website; Banking Reports, and JCEO); MOTION: Acceptance of Minutes for the Regular Meeting of June 23, 2025 Community Input.  DISCUSSION: Approval for Girl Scouts to Build a […]

First Micro Bird bus officially completed at new Plattsburgh manufacturing facility

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Stefanik and Lawler are in a governor’s race staredown. Who will blink first?

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Gillibrand says rescission likely to pass, cutting public media funding

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Hochul unveils impacts of Trump’s “Big Beautiful” legislation

All New York’s GOP Congressional Representatives Voted for These Cuts July 11, 2035 – Gov. Hochul News Release – Governor Kathy Hochul today released new data showing the devastating impacts of the Republicans’ “Big Ugly Bill” on New York State. The data show the enormous scale of the recently-enacted law, including draconian cuts to Medicaid, […]

Canada relies on US trade. Here’s how the country is reacting to high tariffs

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New York ranger found dead after 8 days missing: Petition demands safety reform

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Pasquale’s Restaurant and Bar seeking pizza makers and line cooks

North Country leaders are laying the groundwork for nuclear power plant pitch

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Showers and thunderstorms are likely this afternoon

Showers and thunderstorms are likely this afternoon as a surface trough drags a boundary across the region. Showers will develop off the Greens around noon and slowly drift eastward across Vermont with additional chances in northern New York and the Champlain Valley. The main concern will be heavy rain and localized flash flooding.

Ogdensburg man charged in fatal 2023 car vs. Amish buggy crash

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North Country at Work: protecting the region’s soil and water

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Here’s what $1 trillion in US Medicaid cuts will mean in the North Country

“The cuts to Medicaid will have an outsized impact on the North Country, where 28% of the population relies on the federal program for health insurance. Local healthcare groups and officials have warned that Medicaid cuts will have devastating impacts here in the region.” Click here for the NCPR story 

New Alstom contract with MTA to bring jobs to Plattsburgh plant

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Revolutionary War Training Camps for teens

Four free camps for boys and girls from 12 to 16 In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Clinton County Historical Association in conjunction with the Kent-Delord House Museum is excited to announce that we are offering four Revolutionary War Training Camps at the Kent-Delord House Museum during the months of […]

Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau Launches BattleofValcour.com

Your Front Row Seat to 1776 and the region’s commemoration for America250th Plattsburgh, NY – America is turning 250, and there’s no better place to celebrate than the Adirondack Coast a region that helped shape our nation’s story! From the Revolutionary War to the Battle of Plattsburgh in 1814, this historic stretch of Lake Champlain […]

Norsk Titanium secures new contracts

Customers are U.S. Gov. contractors, one from DOD Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Multiple crews responding to fire on Leggett Road in Champlain

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COMMENTARY: Rescues, Roads, and Wilderness

Times Union article reported that two rangers argue that their job is made more difficult by state policy, chiefly the state’s decision to render old roads impassible to motorized vehicles.  Click here for the Adirondack Almanac story