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2024 NYS Fair cracks half a million visitors on Day 9
Geddes, N.Y. — Total attendance at the 2024 New York State Fair cracked more than 500,000 visitors on Day 9. With 66,168 people coming out to the fairgrounds on Thursday, total attendance this year now sits at 556,841 with four days left. If you purchase a product or register...
Check Out New York’s 5 Best Waterfalls This Labor Day Weekend
It's hard to believe that it is Labor Day Weekend already! If you don't have anything planned yet for the long weekend, may I suggest checking some of the best waterfalls in New York! You might as well enjoy some waterfall swimming while we still have the warm weather!. The...
Relocation for Resilience: Protecting Homes and Businesses from Climate Change
This is a companion piece to Retrofit for Resilience: Protecting Homes and Businesses from Climate Change. In the United States, relocation as a method of flood-risk negation has a lengthy history dating back to Tennessee in the 1930s. Towns would purchase properties out from owners in order to install dams that would ideally mitigate further water damage from heavy storms.
Dangerous Jury Duty Scam Reaches Upstate New York
Most people want to avoid jury duty. That's why officials from the Hudson Valley are sounding the alarm about this new scam. Scammers are always finding new ways to try and trick you. Speed Camera Scam. Speed cameras are now up across New York State. And that means you can...
What’s Happening over the Weekend? August 30 – September 1
Here’s what is happening in the North Country over the Weekend… Friday, August 30 Event Where When NYS Fair NYS Fairgrounds, Syracuse All Day Farmers Market Canton 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Farmers Market Alexandria Bay 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Art Exhibition Thousand Islands Arts Center 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Farmers Market Chaumont […]
Local park to receive over $1M for new accessible pool, splashpad, and playground
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A new grant is helping expand public access to swimming in underserved communities across New York State. Governor Hochul announced nearly $150 million in capital grants have been awarded to fund 37 projects. It includes over $1 million going toward the City of Rochester’s Lightfoot Park Master Plan.
The September 2024 WellNYS Challenge: Learn the art of journaling
The Employee Assistance Program’s WellNYS Everyday site has published its Daily To-Do calendar for September 2024, which encourages employees to embrace the art of journaling as a path to empowerment and self-care. The EAP offers different ways to make writing down thoughts part of employees’ daily routine, including taking...
Democrat Paula Collins campaigns in North Country in bid to unseat Elise Stefanik
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - Voters in New York’s 21st district will decide in just over two months who will represent them in Congress for the next two years. Incumbent Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik will face off against attorney Paula Collins, a Democrat, for the seat. Collins visited Plattsburgh this...
Francine Prose to speak at Cornwall Library Sept. 21
CORNWALL –Francine Prose, author of “1974, A Personal History,” will appear in conversation with author Roxana Robinson at the Cornwall Library at 4 p.m. Prose’s book is a haunting new memoir about her youth in the 1970s and of coming of age in counterculture America. Registration...
Spotlight On a Network Aiming to Make Everyone a Food Changemaker
Ali Ghiorse wants to transform our food system. A formidable goal, to be sure, but the former Bay Area chef is inspired by the years she spent immersed in Northern California’s food culture, where locally and sustainably produced food and drink is standard. Ghiorse had stopped cooking professionally by...
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