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Most of the time, Eric Andrus is a beef and rice farmer. But lately, he’s learning to be a boat builder. On this day, he’s in the barn, sanding the hull…
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Smaller farms in upstate New York are being squeezed by the valuation mechanisms that peg taxation to land values.One of those challenges is property…
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Wind farms are a touchy subject in the North Country. As the town of Cape Vincent wrestles with a potential project, in neighboring Lewis County another…
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A Tylerville dairy farm, in Jefferson County, is growing, in part thanks to help from National Grid. The company awarded the farm a grant of $50,000 to…
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About 200 community members turned up in a school auditorium in Watertown Thursday night in a showing of regional support for Fort Drum. The event was…
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St. Lawrence County may be losing population, but there's one group that keeps growing: Old Order Amish. They've moved to northern New York because of…
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Earlier this month, energy company BP announced its entire renewables division was up for sale. At a recent public meeting on the proposed Cape Vincent…
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The North Country Regional Economic Development Council or REDC, held its most recent meeting at Fort Drum last week. The idea was to give members from…
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After founding his first stores elsewhere, Jefferson County’s Frank Winfield Woolworth bought the building in Watertown where he’d got his start in the…
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The US Senate is preparing to take up the federal Farm Bill again in the coming weeks.Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants it to include a plan to protect and…