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<title>NCPR Daily News: 05/22/2012</title>
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<title>Opposition grows to Cuomo plan to protect NYers in state care</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Opposition is growing in the legislature to Governor Cuomo’s top end-of-session priority. The governor would like to enact a new agency to curb abuse of people with mental and physical disabilities at state-run centers. Opponents, though, say the proposed new entity does not go far enough. In Albany, Karen DeWitt has the details on the controversy.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Potsdam considers police force size</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Potsdam Village Board opened a public discussion on the size of the police force last night. Two positions have remained unfilled since one sergeant resigned last year, and another was promoted to chief. That’s prompted questions about how big a police force the village needs.]]></description>
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<title>Saranac Review poems nominated for Pushcart Prize</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Saranac Review is a literary journal published at SUNY Plattsburgh.  Since 2004, the journal has slowly built a name for itself in the literary community. And this spring it received a big honor: two poems featured in the journal were nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Sarah Harris has our story.]]></description>
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<title>A beach, cold water, and plenty of sunshine at Tirrell Pond</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's been an on-again, off-again sort of spring, but last weekend was picture perfect in the North Country, with sunshine and hot days.  Brian Mann took advantage of the weather to make the eight-mile round trip hike to Tirrell Pond, a pristine lake in the Blue Mountain Wild Forest in the central Adirondacks.  He sent back an audio postcard.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Books:  &quot;This is What I Thought at the Time&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Long-time Canton resident Peter Van de Water is out with a new book, This is What I Thought at the Time.  It’s a collection of his essays originally published in the St. Lawrence Plaindealer: everything from farming to politics. Todd Moe spoke with him about writing essays based on what he was reading, childhood memories on the farm and changes in society.  Van de Water has spent most of his life in Canton, graduated from St. Lawrence University, retired in 1984 and says his essays were inspired by his father's newspaper columns in the Watertown Daily Times.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 23:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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