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Northern New York state communities are feeling the impacts of reduced visitation

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After long wait, Elise Stefanik to be confirmed as UN ambassador in early April

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How the Education Department cuts could hurt low-income and rural schools

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US to restrict Canadian access to historic Vermont library straddling northern border

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Vermont agriculture community reels from federal funding changes

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Program that sends local food to Vermont schools loses funding in Trump cuts

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Cortland Standard, one of New York state’s oldest newspapers, closes

The article said its closure was due to declining readership and increasing costs, including an expected 25% tariff on newsprint. Seventeen employees lost their jobs. Click here for the Syracuse.com story 

Schumer decries massive NOAA layoffs

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EPA to review landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health

“We are driving a dagger through the heart of the climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Click here for the CBS News story 

Excessive rise in bee deaths are impacting local honey producers as well as crop pollination on a national level

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New York prison strike ends after 22 days, DOCCS says, as 2,000 employees terminated

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Clinton County Health Department and partners are monitoring Bird Flu

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)  Clinton County, March 11, 2025. The Clinton County Health Department (CCHD) and their local partners are working closely to monitor Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as H5N1 or bird flu, in Clinton County and to share educational messages with poultry and dairy farms and workers, health care providers, […]

Tariffs on Canadian electricity could mean higher costs for dirtier electricity in New York

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Market 32/Price Chopper Raises over $73,000 for Red Cross Disaster Response to California Wildfires 

Customers Rounded Up Change at Checkout to Benefit Wildfire-specific Fund, plus Market 32/Price Chopper donated $10K [SCHENECTADY, N.Y., March 7, 2025] Market32/Price Chopper customers at all locations across six states responded to the call for contributions to the American Red Cross California Wildfire Fund with customary generosity, donating $63,338.77. Market 32/Price Chopper added $10,000, bringing […]

Butterfly numbers have fallen by nearly a quarter since 2000

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Tariffs already hitting North Country tourism sector

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With federal funding at risk, UVM announces 60-day hiring freeze

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Texas Republican has beef with NY, seeks to change name of a New York Strip steak

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Onondaga County’s first wind farm stirs controversy: Who has power over giant turbines?

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Assemblyman Billy Jones: Tariffs on Canadian Goods Could Cause Trade War

3/3/25 – Assemblyman Billy Jones News Release              “I am disheartened by the federal administration’s decision to enact tariffs on Canadian goods starting at midnight. This will negatively impact our local transportation manufacturing sector, as well as both residents and local businesses because of our reliance on Canadian goods for our construction, agricultural and energy […]

Trump says 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico to go ahead

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North Country leaders stunned by tariff deadline reversal

Confusion and dismay after announcements that Canadian tariffs would still begin March 4 Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Tax scams to watch out for this year

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‘Very, very financially fragile’: Vermont’s federally qualified health centers are struggling

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Flooding long past, many Vermont municipalities are still swimming in red ink

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