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<itunes:summary>News stories from the Adirondack North Country filed by Nora Flaherty</itunes:summary>
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<title>TC Boyle: Back in Potsdam again</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21843/20130424/tc-boyle-back-in-potsdam-again</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 24, 2013) Writer TC Boyle will be at SUNY Potsdam Thursday evening for a reading as part of Potsdam&apos;s Lougheed Festival of the Arts. He&apos;ll also be introducing student writers on Friday night. After growing up in Westchester County, Boyle graduated from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21843/20130424/tc-boyle-back-in-potsdam-again">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Writer TC Boyle will be at SUNY Potsdam Thursday evening for a reading as part of Potsdam&apos;s Lougheed Festival of the Arts. He&apos;ll also be introducing student writers on Friday night. After growing up in Westchester County, Boyle graduated from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21843/20130424/tc-boyle-back-in-potsdam-again">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<title>SUNY-Fort Drum program to train those on the &quot;front lines&quot; with returning soldiers</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21722/20130402/suny-fort-drum-program-to-train-those-on-the-quot-front-lines-quot-with-returning-soldiers</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 2, 2013) A new program from SUNY Oswego is looking to train people who work with Fort Drum&apos;s soldiers in the basics of mental health and counseling. It&apos;s starting with a course that&apos;s being taught right now at Fort Drum, &quot;Trauma management and stewardship.&quot; Fort Drum is home to the 10th Mountain Division, one of the most heavily deployed units in the US. When those soldiers return home from overseas, they can suffer from a range of physical and mental problems connected to their service, like post-traumatic stress disorder, mental issues associated with bodily injuries, and traumatic brain injuries. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21722/20130402/suny-fort-drum-program-to-train-those-on-the-quot-front-lines-quot-with-returning-soldiers">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A new program from SUNY Oswego is looking to train people who work with Fort Drum&apos;s soldiers in the basics of mental health and counseling. It&apos;s starting with a course that&apos;s being taught right now at Fort Drum, &quot;Trauma management and stewardship.&quot; Fort Drum is home to the 10th Mountain Division, one of the most heavily deployed units in the US. When those soldiers return home from overseas, they can suffer from a range of physical and mental problems connected to their service, like post-traumatic stress disorder, mental issues associated with bodily injuries, and traumatic brain injuries. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21722/20130402/suny-fort-drum-program-to-train-those-on-the-quot-front-lines-quot-with-returning-soldiers">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>06:00</itunes:duration>
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<title>What&apos;s so great about roller derby? </title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21612/20130318/what-apos-s-so-great-about-roller-derby</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 18, 2013) Roller derby has a surprisingly long history: It first emerged as a contact sport in the late 1930s; started broadcasting on TV in the late &apos;40s; and had a bit of a TV revival in the &apos;80s and &apos;90s. The sport as we know it today is mostly an all-female, woman-organized amateur sport. This most recent incarnation got its start in the early 2000s, in Austin, Texas. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21612/20130318/what-apos-s-so-great-about-roller-derby">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Roller derby has a surprisingly long history: It first emerged as a contact sport in the late 1930s; started broadcasting on TV in the late &apos;40s; and had a bit of a TV revival in the &apos;80s and &apos;90s. The sport as we know it today is mostly an all-female, woman-organized amateur sport. This most recent incarnation got its start in the early 2000s, in Austin, Texas. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21612/20130318/what-apos-s-so-great-about-roller-derby">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:45</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, sports, recreation, roller derby, fort drum, [loc:43.9747838 -75.9107565], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>How the North Country can support artists, grow economy</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21500/20130225/how-the-north-country-can-support-artists-grow-economy</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Feb 25, 2013) The North Country&apos;s Regional Economic Development Council has been one of the most successful in the state. It&apos;s received top awards twice now, for projects that range from renovating an historic building in Port Henry, to making improvements to the Wild Center in Tupper Lake, to treating wastewater in Malone. Several of the projects the state funded aim to improve the North Country&apos;s economic outlook through the arts. One of these is &quot;Invisible Factory&quot;, a project whose goal is to support regional artisans, and help them make a living from what they do. &quot;Invisible Factory&quot; is a partnership between Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, in Canton, and the Adirondack North Country Association, in Saranac Lake. Nora Flaherty stopped by TAUNY, to learn more about Invisible Factory. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21500/20130225/how-the-north-country-can-support-artists-grow-economy">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The North Country&apos;s Regional Economic Development Council has been one of the most successful in the state. It&apos;s received top awards twice now, for projects that range from renovating an historic building in Port Henry, to making improvements to the Wild Center in Tupper Lake, to treating wastewater in Malone. Several of the projects the state funded aim to improve the North Country&apos;s economic outlook through the arts. One of these is &quot;Invisible Factory&quot;, a project whose goal is to support regional artisans, and help them make a living from what they do. &quot;Invisible Factory&quot; is a partnership between Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, in Canton, and the Adirondack North Country Association, in Saranac Lake. Nora Flaherty stopped by TAUNY, to learn more about Invisible Factory. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21500/20130225/how-the-north-country-can-support-artists-grow-economy">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>06:11</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, economy, cuomo, regional economic development corporation, arts, economic development, TAUNY, [loc:44.5956163 -75.1690942], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Elvis definitely still in De Peyster</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21203/20130108/elvis-definitely-still-in-de-peyster</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 8, 2013) Today is Elvis Presley&apos;s birthday...he was born on this day in 1935. But for some, every day is about celebrating the King.Shirley Gagnon is one such fan. She&apos;s the owner of the &quot;Memories of Elvis&quot; museum in De Peyster. The museum got its start as Shirley&apos;s personal collection of Elvis memorabilia, but when the collection got too big for Shirley&apos;s family home next door, she and her husband bought a mobile home and &quot;Memories of Elvis&quot; was born.The museum opened to the public in 1997, and since then people have come from as far as England to see Shirley&apos;s collection of Elvis plates, dolls, clocks, tapestries, and much, much more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21203/20130108/elvis-definitely-still-in-de-peyster">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Today is Elvis Presley&apos;s birthday...he was born on this day in 1935. But for some, every day is about celebrating the King.Shirley Gagnon is one such fan. She&apos;s the owner of the &quot;Memories of Elvis&quot; museum in De Peyster. The museum got its start as Shirley&apos;s personal collection of Elvis memorabilia, but when the collection got too big for Shirley&apos;s family home next door, she and her husband bought a mobile home and &quot;Memories of Elvis&quot; was born.The museum opened to the public in 1997, and since then people have come from as far as England to see Shirley&apos;s collection of Elvis plates, dolls, clocks, tapestries, and much, much more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21203/20130108/elvis-definitely-still-in-de-peyster">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:37</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, arts, elvis, music, [loc:41.0827798 -73.8622214], stlv, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Old Christmas an old tradition for many Amish in the North Country</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21167/20130102/old-christmas-an-old-tradition-for-many-amish-in-the-north-country</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 2, 2013) For most of us, Jan. 1 marks the end of the holiday season, whether that&apos;s a sad goodbye or a relief. But for some Christians, including many of the Amish people in the North Country, Jan. 6 is another day of celebration: Epiphany, or &quot;Old Christmas.&quot; Karen Johnson-Weiner is a professor of linguistic Anthropology at SUNY Potsdam. She&apos;s been working with the North County&apos;s Amish for years. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21167/20130102/old-christmas-an-old-tradition-for-many-amish-in-the-north-country">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For most of us, Jan. 1 marks the end of the holiday season, whether that&apos;s a sad goodbye or a relief. But for some Christians, including many of the Amish people in the North Country, Jan. 6 is another day of celebration: Epiphany, or &quot;Old Christmas.&quot; Karen Johnson-Weiner is a professor of linguistic Anthropology at SUNY Potsdam. She&apos;s been working with the North County&apos;s Amish for years. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21167/20130102/old-christmas-an-old-tradition-for-many-amish-in-the-north-country">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>05:45</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>religion, holidays, photolead, Amish, christmas, food, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Heard Up North: Santa meets dogs and cats in Ogdensburg</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21121/20121224/heard-up-north-santa-meets-dogs-and-cats-in-ogdensburg</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 24, 2012) Getting your kids&apos; pictures taken with Santa Claus has been a longtime holiday ritual for many. In recent years another group has begun vying for Santa&apos;s attention—pets—and a picture of an awkward dog or an annoyed looking cat in Father Christmas&apos; lap has become a fairly common site on the mantle.In Ogdensburg on the day after Thanksgiving last year, Amvets Auxiliary post 19 invited people to come out to Tractor Supply with their pets to meet Santa. The event was a benefit for St. Jude Children&apos;s research hospital. Nora Flaherty&apos;s dog gets nervous in crowds, so she stayed home—but Nora did bring her recorder for this Heard Up North: [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21121/20121224/heard-up-north-santa-meets-dogs-and-cats-in-ogdensburg">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Getting your kids&apos; pictures taken with Santa Claus has been a longtime holiday ritual for many. In recent years another group has begun vying for Santa&apos;s attention—pets—and a picture of an awkward dog or an annoyed looking cat in Father Christmas&apos; lap has become a fairly common site on the mantle.In Ogdensburg on the day after Thanksgiving last year, Amvets Auxiliary post 19 invited people to come out to Tractor Supply with their pets to meet Santa. The event was a benefit for St. Jude Children&apos;s research hospital. Nora Flaherty&apos;s dog gets nervous in crowds, so she stayed home—but Nora did bring her recorder for this Heard Up North: [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21121/20121224/heard-up-north-santa-meets-dogs-and-cats-in-ogdensburg">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>02:35</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, holidays, animals, [loc:44.6942291 -75.4863364], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Barbershop chorus is longtime Canton tradition</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21029/20121210/barbershop-chorus-is-longtime-canton-tradition</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 10, 2012) The Canton Goldenaires have been singing four-part harmonies for fifty years now. They&apos;re a chorus, not a quartet, but their sound is very much what you&apos;d expect from a barbershop group—although they don&apos;t wear the striped blazers and boater hats. You might think a barbershop group, with its old-timey singing style, would attract a distinctly older demographic. But the Goldenaires&apos; singers range in age from 28 to 78. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21029/20121210/barbershop-chorus-is-longtime-canton-tradition">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Canton Goldenaires have been singing four-part harmonies for fifty years now. They&apos;re a chorus, not a quartet, but their sound is very much what you&apos;d expect from a barbershop group—although they don&apos;t wear the striped blazers and boater hats. You might think a barbershop group, with its old-timey singing style, would attract a distinctly older demographic. But the Goldenaires&apos; singers range in age from 28 to 78. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21029/20121210/barbershop-chorus-is-longtime-canton-tradition">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>03:03</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>arts, [loc:44.5956163 -75.1690942], music, holidays, photolead, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Former marketing consultant calls social media &quot;B.S.&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20967/20121205/former-marketing-consultant-calls-social-media-quot-b-s-quot</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 5, 2012) There&apos;s no avoiding social media these days—even if you&apos;re not on the internet, TV commercials urge you to like companies on Facebook or follow them on Twitter, newscasters read influential people&apos;s tweets on the air, and if you&apos;re not on Facebook, well, you&apos;re in for a lot of funny looks. If you run a business or an organization, pressure to have an active social media &quot;presence&quot; can be intense—but the benefits you actually get from that presence may not be anywhere near as huge as what you were led to expect. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20967/20121205/former-marketing-consultant-calls-social-media-quot-b-s-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There&apos;s no avoiding social media these days—even if you&apos;re not on the internet, TV commercials urge you to like companies on Facebook or follow them on Twitter, newscasters read influential people&apos;s tweets on the air, and if you&apos;re not on Facebook, well, you&apos;re in for a lot of funny looks. If you run a business or an organization, pressure to have an active social media &quot;presence&quot; can be intense—but the benefits you actually get from that presence may not be anywhere near as huge as what you were led to expect. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20967/20121205/former-marketing-consultant-calls-social-media-quot-b-s-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:42</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>technology, media, arts, authors, media, books, clarkson, [loc:44.6697805 -74.9813084], internet, photolead, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Serving up meatloaf, pie and community at Mom&apos;s Schoolhouse Diner</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20855/20121122/serving-up-meatloaf-pie-and-community-at-mom-apos-s-schoolhouse-diner</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 22, 2012) At its best, Thanksgiving is about food, family, and community—and Sharon Bastille, better known around her West Potsdam stomping ground as &quot;Mom&quot;, has built her business around all those things. Bastille and her husband, who&apos;s a carpenter, own Mom&apos;s Schoolhouse Diner, located in a former one-room schoolhouse. Mom&apos;s is a &apos;50s diner, where the staff wears red and white checked circle skirts under their aprons. Bastille has had Mom&apos;s for about a decade, after a couple decades spent at home with her kids. She tries to make the diner as much like home as possible by knowing customers&apos; names, likes and dislikes, for example. Though Mom&apos;s is a business, Bastille doesn&apos;t think of herself as a businesswoman. She told Nora Flaherty she doesn&apos;t make a living from the diner. But as long as it breaks even, her priority is creating a nice place for people in the community to come together. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20855/20121122/serving-up-meatloaf-pie-and-community-at-mom-apos-s-schoolhouse-diner">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[At its best, Thanksgiving is about food, family, and community—and Sharon Bastille, better known around her West Potsdam stomping ground as &quot;Mom&quot;, has built her business around all those things. Bastille and her husband, who&apos;s a carpenter, own Mom&apos;s Schoolhouse Diner, located in a former one-room schoolhouse. Mom&apos;s is a &apos;50s diner, where the staff wears red and white checked circle skirts under their aprons. Bastille has had Mom&apos;s for about a decade, after a couple decades spent at home with her kids. She tries to make the diner as much like home as possible by knowing customers&apos; names, likes and dislikes, for example. Though Mom&apos;s is a business, Bastille doesn&apos;t think of herself as a businesswoman. She told Nora Flaherty she doesn&apos;t make a living from the diner. But as long as it breaks even, her priority is creating a nice place for people in the community to come together. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20855/20121122/serving-up-meatloaf-pie-and-community-at-mom-apos-s-schoolhouse-diner">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>06:05</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, food, stlv, community, diner, [loc:44.6870036 -75.0896460], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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