NEW YORK — More than a century after it was published, the article reads like slapstick comedy from the silent-movie era. Read More ⇒
The following were charged with driving while intoxicated and related offenses: Read More ⇒
ALEXANDRIA BAY — The United Parcel Service store in the Price Chopper Plaza has opened, bringing new life to one of the vacant storefronts in the complex. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — A standoff between police officers and a Watertown man who refused to leave a Boyd Street apartment on Friday ended peacefully after four hours. But the man now faces several charges for alleged drug and weapons possession and violent offenses. Read More ⇒
MASSENA — After hearing a passenger’s concerns regarding the sterile area at the Massena International Airport, a local business has stepped forward to help improve the accommodations. Read More ⇒
OGDENSBURG — Ogdensburg City Manager Sarah Purdy delivered a report to City Council Aug. 19 that said changing the city’s form of government wasn’t necessary. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — State police in Watertown are seeking help in identifying two people captured on store surveillance camera footage so they can be questioned for a larceny investigation. Read More ⇒
CARTHAGE — For the second year in a row Carthage Area Hospital was the recipient of the Healthgrades Five-star Labor & Delivery Excellence Award. The organization took the opportunity to present the award during the hospital’s Community Engagement series “Healthy Babies, Healthy Moms” Ba… Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — A Watertown man faces charges after allegedly possessing 50.88 grams of marijuana on Friday. Read More ⇒
MASSENA — The New York Power Authority is reminding members of the public to be aware of potential changes in water conditions on the St. Lawrence River and along its shoreline. Read More ⇒
MASSENA — Village of Massena officials are proposing a change in their solid waste regulations that would allow the use of a larger garbage container. Read More ⇒
David H. Koch, who joined his brother, Charles G. Koch, in business and political ventures that grew into the nation’s second-largest private company and a powerful right-wing libertarian movement that helped reshape American politics, has died. He was 79. Read More ⇒
OSWEGO - When Peter Mahan retired a few years ago as high school art teacher for the Hannibal School District, little did he know he’d be head-over-heels in love with screenwriting and eventually participate in a local indie film production as co-writer, director, and editor. “It’s been a dr… Read More ⇒
CENTRAL SQUARE - Paulie’s Super Siblings is conducting its first bowling tournament fundraiser at 9 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 8 at Green Acres Lanes, Central Square. Read More ⇒
CENTRAL SQUARE - Hits for Hope will be stepping up to bat for veterans in and around Oswego County during its sixth annual softball and dinner fundraiser next month. Read More ⇒
OSWEGO – The next “Stepping On” balance and falls prevention workshop, designed to help participants improve balance and avoid falls starts on Monday, Sept. 9. Read More ⇒
OSWEGO - From 1-3 p.m. on Aug. 25 100 new children shoes and socks will be given away on a first-come, first-serve basis. Children must be present and sizes available are toddler 10 to youth 8. Read More ⇒
OSWEGO - A themed collection of work from James Gale Tyler, namesake of SUNY Oswego’s Tyler Hall and Tyler Art Gallery, plus emeriti art professors Paul Garland and Sewall Oertling, will open the college’s Tyler Art Gallery fall season in “Water: Swift, Slow and In Between”. Read More ⇒
OSWEGO — Heavy afternoon rain that caused racing cancellations throughout much of the state on Saturday couldn’t damper a history-making track championship night at Oswego Speedway. Read More ⇒
SYRACUSE - H. Lee White Maritime Museum, Oswego, is among the partners sponsoring a new maritime heritage exhibit featuring recreational boats spanning the decades since 1913 in a dry-land marina setting. The museum joined with the Great New York State Fair, New York Sea Grant, and the Boati… Read More ⇒
OSWEGO COUNTY – Community members are preventing type 2 diabetes together with the PreventT2 lifestyle change program offered by Oswego Health and the Oswego County Health Department. Guided by trained lifestyle coaches, groups of participants are learning the skills they need to make lastin… Read More ⇒
OSWEGO COUNTY - The U.S. Route 11 bridge over the Oneida River connecting Oswego County and Onondaga County is set to be replaced in 2021. Read More ⇒
Every spring, throngs of garden warblers make a treacherous, multiweek journey from their winter homes in Africa to their summer breeding grounds in Europe. Read More ⇒
WASHINGTON - Spiders have moved in to dine on the bugs drawn by the lights. Wasps have built nests to eat the spiders. And a “community” of dark biofilm has spread over the surface of the marble like the spots of a giant leopard. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — A statewide survey kicked off this week to choose a new state license plate has sparked immediate criticism from residents over both a design lacking Northern New York elements, and how the state intends to charge for the forced replacement program. Read More ⇒
OGDENSBURG — Three bids were received for the city’s estimated $34,891,700 million wastewater treatment facility makeover. The apparent lowest bid came in $6.2 million over budget. Read More ⇒
SACKETS HARBOR — After five years, Tina M. Thornton had all but given up her attempts to bring the Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall to the community. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — A man wanted for multiple felony sex crimes in Minnesota was caught at the U.S. border after being refused entry into Canada. Read More ⇒
MASSENA — The Massena Town Council wants voters to have a say in the sale of Massena Memorial Hospital to St. Lawrence Health System. Read More ⇒
HAMMOND — The St. Lawrence County Public Health Department is advising that people and animals avoid contact with blue-green algae blooms that have been visually identified in Black Lake. Read More ⇒
MASSENA — Alcoa has offered the United Steelworkers another proposal after the union rejected the last contract offer. Read More ⇒
ELLISBURG — The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department is investigating whether speed was a contributing factor in a fatal motorcycle accident on U.S. Route 11 that killed a Florida man on Wednesday night. Read More ⇒
State police charged Scott F. Flitcroft, 43, Felts Mills, with criminal obstruction of breathing and first-degree criminal contempt at 8:38 p.m. Saturday. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — An email phishing attack has struck Samaritan Medical Center, although the hospital has taken precautions to secure its systems. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — A Watertown man was charged with a felony driving under the influence of drugs, according to state police. Read More ⇒
The agency that manages outflows from Lake Ontario decided to reduce them Wednesday after lake levels fell to 247.7 feet. Read More ⇒
OSWEGO - The Port of Oswego Container Service has been designated a Marine Highway Project/Marine Highway Route by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration. Read More ⇒
CROGHAN - From 9-11 a.m. on Sept. 7 a maple tubing workshop will be held at Pierce’s Sugar Spigot, 11601 State Route 812, Croghan, will include an update on maple industry research funded by the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP). Cost is $5 per farm; r… Read More ⇒
PULASKI - The Greater Pulaski Community Endowment Fund recently awarded $28,376 in grants to nonprofit organizations serving the greater Pulaski area. Read More ⇒
PARISH - Residents of the town of Parish will decide in November whether to increase the length of term for town supervisor and town clerk from two to four years. Read More ⇒
OSWEGO - Rice Creek Associates will present a program all about bats. This program begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24 at Rice Creek Field Station, Thompson Road in Oswego. Read More ⇒
HANNIBAL - Although school is out for the summer, that didn’t stop 75 Hannibal Central School District students from engaging in a weeklong STEM learning opportunity. Read More ⇒
ALBANY - To foster the next generation of hunters in New York, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has expanded opportunities for junior hunters (licensees ages 12-15) and trappers (under 12 years old) by designating special youth hunts for deer, wild turkey, pheasants and wat… Read More ⇒
OSWEGO — Sean Paul Owen of the Oswego State men’s golf team was selected as a Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-American Scholar for the second straight year. Read More ⇒
WELLFLEET, Mass. — Anxiety is hanging over the Cape Cod beaches this summer. Read More ⇒
Eight people, including seven from Akwesasne, are facing federal fraud and money laundering charges in an alleged scheme to smuggle tobacco grown in the United States into Canada, avoiding both U.S. and Canadian taxes. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — A Clayton man will get probation after admitting in court that he held his girlfriend against her will with an infant while he drove 90 miles per hour on County Route 66 in the town of Hounsfield in June. Read More ⇒
POTSDAM — One hundred and thirty years ago to the day, Potsdam still can’t look away from “the great circus train wreck of ‘89.” Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — City firefighters will be paid nearly $1 million in back pay connected to the five-year contract dispute with the city. Read More ⇒
GOUVERNEUR — Proposed changes to the village’s zoning code would expand the type of businesses allowed on a section of Main Street near the Price Chopper grocery store by rezoning the area from a residential/business district to a Business-2 district. Read More ⇒