WINTHROP — There were doubters in the 1970s when Edward Joseph Carr decided he was going to plant an apple orchard on his property here along County Route 49 in a region not usually associated the fruit being able to thrive. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — The film “Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” was the No. 1 movie in U.S. box office charts on the June 19-20 weekend and a sibling team with roots in Watertown is a major part of its success. Read More ⇒
The elderly man climbed out of his Honda CRV parked along the State Street curb in Heuvelton, clutched his cane and started his steady trek up a small incline to the village diner. The morning sun was behind him, casting his shadow to the sidewalk slightly ahead of him, as if his legend was … Read More ⇒
Eric J. Youngs has a passion for firewood that could be a result of his Scandinavian lineage. But it was a book published in 2015 that became a best-seller in Europe that lit his artistic flame. Read More ⇒
Jeramy K. Freeman wants you to believe in yourself and dream big. Read More ⇒
Last Sunday afternoon, Valentine’s Day, in a photo studio upstairs at Watertown’s Paddock Arcade, Kristie Stumpf Rork gathered some friends to say bye-bye to her boobs. Read More ⇒
Sometimes it takes an outsider to truly appreciate the inside framework of where we call home. Read More ⇒
On the walls of her Sackets Harbor home, Caroline M. Baker has mementos of her dad Harold Stott, a longtime automotive mechanic in Harrisville. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — For John R. Northrop, the means of earning a living and the vehicle for his success has always been a focus on family. Read More ⇒
When Watertown native Michael J. Leoni hit the streets of Los Angeles six years ago to gather insight into the teen homeless issue of the city where he lives, he expected it to be a short project and to the point. Read More ⇒
Louise Pierce of Norwood, who turned 94 on Friday, is no stranger to quarantine life. Memories flooded back to her a few weeks ago when she read an article in the Watertown Daily Times by Indanapolis-based columnist Lori Borgman who, in the column, recalled her father-in-law, Hub, and his qu… Read More ⇒
As tourists from a cruise ship strolled about the village of Clayton’s downtown on Sept. 12, murals along James Street stopped them in their tracks. Cell phones popped out of pockets to capture photos of the colorful scenes of river and early village life painted on the outside walls of the … Read More ⇒
About three dozen graduates, with robes of green — a color that signifies life, renewal and energy, proudly stood in front of family and friends at a conference room at the Hilton Garden Inn in Watertown on the evening of June 13. Cheers erupted as they moved their golden tassels from one si… Read More ⇒
The Rev. Vincent T. Freeh has been on a mission for 60 years since he became an ordained priest in 1959. It was then that he declared his faithfulness to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. Read More ⇒