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All Before Five: 04/04/12
Apr 04, 2012 — Planned Parenthood of the North Country has a new leader, and we'll get to know her. Plattsburgh looks to find its own way as a city of arts. Potsdam police search for a hit-and-run driver who knocked a cyclist off his bike Tuesday. And the end is in sight for the construction of the West Potsdam hydro dam. Go to full article
Readers & Writers: Kristin Kimball
Apr 04, 2012 — Our guest, Kristen Kimball, is author of the memoir The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love, and co-owner of Essex Farm, a full-diet, year-round, draft-horse-powered CSA (Community-Supported Agriculture) provider in the Champlain Valley. Ellen Rocco and Mary Hussman host.
Kimball will give a reading Thu., April 5 at 7:30 pm in the Sykes Common Room on the campus of St. Lawrence University, Canton NY. Go to full article
Kimball will give a reading Thu., April 5 at 7:30 pm in the Sykes Common Room on the campus of St. Lawrence University, Canton NY. Go to full article
Planned Parenthood chief stays on message in time of change
Apr 04, 2012 — The new president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the North Country recognizes that she enters the job at a time when the nation's health policies and politics are making headlines. Betsy Brown, of Lake Placid, was appointed to the position on March 19. She succeeds Kathie Wunderlich, who retired last year.
Brown began her career in health care as a college-aged volunteer, helping with family planning on a student hotline. She went on to serve with the Peace Corps for two years in West Africa, and later worked in family planning in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the former Soviet Union. Chris Morris sat down with Brown at Planned Parenthood's Saranac Lake office last week. Go to full article
Brown began her career in health care as a college-aged volunteer, helping with family planning on a student hotline. She went on to serve with the Peace Corps for two years in West Africa, and later worked in family planning in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the former Soviet Union. Chris Morris sat down with Brown at Planned Parenthood's Saranac Lake office last week. Go to full article
Two downtown spaces bring art to Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh, NY, Apr 04, 2012 — Plattsburgh is a city in transition. There's a lot of effort to attract new families and businesses and rebrand the lakeside city as a destination. As Sarah Harris reports, a... Go to full article
Bee expert sees lessons in hive democracy
Apr 04, 2012 — As the Republican primary marches forward, researcher Thomas Seeley is reminded of his work with honeybees. That might sound odd, but Seeley has spent decades studying the... Go to full article
"New York Works" to fund North Country road projects
Albany, NY, Apr 04, 2012 — The North Country will get $45.5 million from the state, for almost 50 projects to repair roads and bridges.
That money comes from the $1.2 billion "New York... Go to full article
That money comes from the $1.2 billion "New York... Go to full article
Magic, charm in new teen novel
Colton, NY, Apr 04, 2012 — Many of us read The Secret Garden when we were kids. Children's author Ellen Potter takes that story and sets it in the Thousand Islands in her new book The Humming... Go to full article
North Country Republican leaders worried about "war on women"
Albany, NY, Apr 03, 2012 — The Obama administration set off a firestorm when it released rules requiring employer-provided health insurance to cover the cost of contraceptives. Leaders in the Catholic... Go to full article
Some areas still closed to investigators at Alcoa West
Massena, NY, Apr 03, 2012 — State fire investigators and the Alcoa corporation are looking for the cause of a fire that broke out at the Alcoa West plant near Massena Thursday.
Alcoa... Go to full article
Alcoa... Go to full article
Cash mobs boost local business, community
Jamestown, NY, Apr 03, 2012 — You may have heard of "flash mobs," where a mass of people invade a public space to make a scene. Now the idea has been turned on its head by "cash mobs," where large... Go to full article
Offshore wind remains divisive
Albany, NY, Apr 03, 2012 — New York is one of five states joining the Obama Administration in an agreement designed to spur offshore wind development in the Great lakes. But as the Innovation Trail's... Go to full article
