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 Kirsten Gillibrand. Photo: Mark Kurtz
by David Sommerstein, in Canton, NY
Washington, DC, Mar 20, 2013 — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is making the case that New York's proposed minimum wage increase to $9 an hour is actually not enough. She is co-sponsoring a bill to raise the minimum wage nationwide to $10.10 an hour. Go to full article
 Lewis County is best known for rolling hills and farm fields, but residents are feeling good about its economy, too. Photo: Doug Kerr CC some rights reserved
by David Sommerstein, in Canton, NY
Lowville, NY, Mar 19, 2013 — Earlier this year, Lewis County had the second highest unemployment rate in New York, behind the Bronx. But residents of Lewis County have a more positive economic outlook than they've had in years. That's according to a survey by Jefferson Community College. Go to full article
by David Sommerstein, in Canton, NY
Mar 15, 2013 — For every ski area that's survived, like Titus Mountain or Mt. Pisgah in Saranac Lake, there are dozens of ski hills that didn't. Jeremy Davis has been documenting them all over New York and New England. He's researched the stories of more than 700 lost ski hills. He's written several books about them, including Lost Ski Areas of the Southern Adirondacks. Davis told David Sommerstein he became interested in ski areas of the past as a boy, when his family was taking a ski trip to New Hampshire. They drove by an abandoned ski area. Go to full article
 Titus Mountain outside of Malone has gotten a facelift and new energy, thanks to new local owners. At busy times, skiers gather around this snowmaker-turned-fireplace outside the lodge. The area spans three mountains and 42 trails.
by David Sommerstein, in Malone, NY
Malone, NY, Mar 15, 2013 — With cold and snow back in the forecast, skiers and snowboarders will have a little more time to carve their last turns of the season. It's been a comeback winter for a North Country ski area that had long gone neglected. Titus Mountain, outside Malone, has new local owners, a new lodge, new trails, and a burst of energy. Titus is one of a shrinking number of ski areas that play an important role in teaching people to ski. Go to full article
 The car wash in Herkimer where two people were killed Wednesday. Photo: Google street view
by David Sommerstein, in Canton, NY
Herkimer, NY, Mar 14, 2013 — Update: The AP reported at about 8:40 this morning that police had killed suspect Kurt Myers in a shootout. Details and updates on this story in the Inbox blog.Residents of southern Herkimer County are puzzled about why a 64-year-old loner allegedly went into a barbershop and opened fire in a burst of violence that would eventually leave four dead and two critically wounded Wednesday. Hundreds of police are locked in a standoff with suspected gunman Kurt Myers in the village of Herkimer this morning. David Sommerstein joined us for the latest on the situation. Go to full article
 Border patrol vehicles await the bus in Canton. Photo: David Sommerstein
by David Sommerstein, in Canton, NY
Washington, DC, Mar 12, 2013 — The union representing border patrol agents says it's being unfairly targeted for spending cuts under the sequester, and that there will be less of a law enforcement presence along the North Country's border with Canada. Go to full article
 St. Regis Mohawk tribal government building in Akwesasne. Photo: David Sommerstein.
by David Sommerstein, in Canton, NY
Hogansburg, NY, Mar 11, 2013 — The effects of across the board federal spending cuts - known as the sequester - are still being sorted out. Mohawks in Akwesasne are bracing for cuts to health care and law enforcement. Go to full article
 Then Chief Jim Ransom introducing CITGO officials in 2006. Photo: David Sommerstein.
by David Sommerstein, in Canton, NY
Hogansburg, NY, Mar 07, 2013 — Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is stirring up as much controversy after his death as he did during his life. Chavez was a strident opponent of the United States. But he also helped many poor people, even in the U.S. Republicans slammed New York Democrat Jose Serrano yesterday for praising Chavez on this point. Under Chavez, Venezuela's national oil company, CITGO, donated 200 million gallons of home heating oil to low income Americans, including to Mohawks in Akwesasne. David Sommerstein reported on the program in 2006. He checks back in for our Story 2.0 series, where we revisit stories from the NCPR archive. Go to full article
 A market in Hogansburg, now part of the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation, circa 1920. Photo courtesy Indian Time.
by David Sommerstein, in Hogansburg, NY
Hogansburg, NY, Mar 06, 2013 — A memorial service was held yesterday for a Mohawk woman who lived to be 100 years old. The family of Beatrice Jacobs says she's lived a healthy life at a nursing home in Snye for the last ten years. According to her obituary, Jacobs worked in the cafeteria at St. Regis Mohawk School, and later with the Warner Brothers Corset Factory in Massena. She won a "Woman of the Year" award from the local Professional Women's Club and helped found an advocacy group for senior citizens of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe. David Sommerstein met Jacobs in 2000, when she agreed to tell him some stories about what life used to be like in Akwesasne. One was a wintertime story about crossing the frozen St. Lawrence River to Ontario, for work, trade, and dancing. Go to full article
 McHugh speaking to reporters during his first visit to Fort Drum as Army Secretary. Photo: David Sommerstein
by David Sommerstein, in Canton, NY
Washington, DC, Mar 06, 2013 — A major newspaper covering the military is reporting John McHugh may step down as Secretary of the Army. Go to full article
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David Sommerstein, NCPR's roving St. Lawrence Valley/Fort
Drum/Tug Hill reporter, began his career in radio, strangely
enough, as a high school Spanish teacher in Buffalo. While drilling
verb conjugations and teaching a love for Latino culture during
the day, he sat in as a late night jazz and Latin DJ at Buffalo's
NPR affiliate, WBFO. The radio bug bit, and David found his
way to southern Colorado/northern New Mexico (the Taos/Santa
Fe area) where he was Program Director, Music Director, Volunteer
Coordinator, and "Just About Anything Else You Can Think
Of" Director at NPR affiliate KRZA. Since joining NCPR's news department, David
has reported from the chilly deck of a St. Lawrence icebreaker,
the power-chord filled stage of the High School Rock Band
Festival, and the tense Albanian street market of post-war
Kosovo with soldiers from Fort Drum. David also gets to fulfill
his passion for music of all kinds when he spins world dance and groove music
on editions of The Beat Authority. E-mailRecent David Sommerstein stories carried by NPR:
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