Archive for 'National News'
Northern New York state communities are feeling the impacts of reduced visitation
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Posted: March 24th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Border News, Business News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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After long wait, Elise Stefanik to be confirmed as UN ambassador in early April
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Posted: March 22nd, 2025 under Congressional News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History.
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How the Education Department cuts could hurt low-income and rural schools
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Posted: March 22nd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Congressional News, Corruption in Gov't., Education News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Peru School News, Peru/Regional History, Regional NY-VT News.
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US to restrict Canadian access to historic Vermont library straddling northern border
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Posted: March 22nd, 2025 under Border News, Community Events, National History, National News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Vermont agriculture community reels from federal funding changes
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Posted: March 16th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Program that sends local food to Vermont schools loses funding in Trump cuts
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Posted: March 14th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Education News, National News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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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
Posted: March 13th, 2025 under Business News, Community Events, General News, National News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Statewide News.
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Schumer decries massive NOAA layoffs
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Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Congressional News, Environmental News, General News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, Statewide News.
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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
Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Environmental News, National News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues.
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Excessive rise in bee deaths are impacting local honey producers as well as crop pollination on a national level
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Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Business News, Environmental News, National News, Northern NY News.
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New York prison strike ends after 22 days, DOCCS says, as 2,000 employees terminated
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Posted: March 11th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Community Events, Heathcare News, Law Enforcement News, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, State Government News.
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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, […]
Posted: March 11th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, County Government News, General News, Heathcare News, National News, Northern NY News, Statewide News.
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Tariffs on Canadian electricity could mean higher costs for dirtier electricity in New York
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Posted: March 10th, 2025 under Border News, Business News, Environmental News, National News, Statewide News.
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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 […]
Posted: March 7th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Business News, Charity Events, General News, National News, Upstate New York.
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Butterfly numbers have fallen by nearly a quarter since 2000
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Posted: March 7th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Environmental News, National History, National News.
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Tariffs already hitting North Country tourism sector
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Posted: March 6th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Border News, Business News, Congressional News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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With federal funding at risk, UVM announces 60-day hiring freeze
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Posted: March 6th, 2025 under Corruption in Gov't., Education News, General News, National History, National News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Texas Republican has beef with NY, seeks to change name of a New York Strip steak
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Posted: March 4th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Corruption in Gov't., General News, National News, Political News.
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Onondaga County’s first wind farm stirs controversy: Who has power over giant turbines?
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Posted: March 4th, 2025 under Environmental News, National News, Political News, Statewide News, Town Board News, Upstate New York.
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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 […]
Posted: March 3rd, 2025 under Border News, Business News, National News, Political News, State Legislator News.
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Trump says 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico to go ahead
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Posted: March 3rd, 2025 under Border News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News.
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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
Posted: March 3rd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Opinion, Peru/Regional History, Political News.
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Tax scams to watch out for this year
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Posted: March 3rd, 2025 under Law Enforcement News, National News.
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‘Very, very financially fragile’: Vermont’s federally qualified health centers are struggling
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Posted: March 1st, 2025 under Congressional News, Highway Dept. News, National News, Peru/Regional History, Regional NY-VT News.
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Flooding long past, many Vermont municipalities are still swimming in red ink
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Posted: February 27th, 2025 under National History, National News, Regional NY-VT News, Weather News/History.
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