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<title>They&apos;ve got talent: It&apos;s spring musical season</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 7, 2013) The spring musical season kicks off this weekend at a number of high schools in the North Country.  It&apos;s a busy time back stage and on stage with final rehearsals amid wet paint.In one school district the students are having — literally — a sweet time.  The musical, Willy Wonka, opens Friday night at St. Lawrence Central High School in Brasher Falls.  Special effects include airborne actors and chocolate-scented fog. Even though most schools are struggling with being able to afford extracurricular activities, like music and theater, that hasn&apos;t dampened the enthusiasm among students, staff and parents.  Todd Moe stopped by the final dress rehearsal for Willy Wonka Wednesday afternoon in Brasher Falls and found lots of school spirit. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21574/20130307/they-apos-ve-got-talent-it-apos-s-spring-musical-season">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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<title>Cranberries bumper crop in Brasher Falls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 20, 2012) Looking for that local touch for your Thanksgiving table?  Try cranberries, fresh from a bog in northern St. Lawrence County.  Peter Paquin owns Deer River Cranberries in Brasher Falls.He says local sales of his cranberries have grown fivefold.  He sells to North Country apple orchards and stores in Potsdam and Lake Placid.  Paquin says people even drive up to the farm to load up coolers full of berries.  &quot;Yeah, they basically come in with coolers and we fill &apos;em up, basically 50 pounds in a cooler,&quot; says Paquin.  &quot;We&apos;ve probably sold to 20 different people in the area, a hundred pounds each.  We&apos;re moving a lot of berries locally.&quot;Paquin says the hot, dry summer and the recent freezing nights have meant a late harvest.  But he says cranberries remain as lucrative a crop as ever.  David Sommerstein visited Paquin&apos;s cranberry bogs in 2008. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20920/20121120/cranberries-bumper-crop-in-brasher-falls">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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<title>A good knifeman is hard to find</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 31, 2010) The “buy and eat local” movement continues to grow.  In at least one instance, it’s struggling with success.  More people are eating local beef, lamb, and other meats for health, safety and economic reasons.  And more farmers are raising the animals.  But in between consumer and producer, there’s a shortage of slaughterhouses.  Local abattoirs used to dot the North Country landscape.  But consolidation in the food industry and onerous USDA regulations have pushed many out of business.  Another problem is a lack of skilled meat cutters.  In part two of a series on the slaughterhouse shortage, David Sommerstein reports. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15445/20100331/a-good-knifeman-is-hard-to-find">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Local meat boom exposes slaughterhouse shortage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 30, 2010) Tonight, local beef, lamb, and pork farmers are gathering at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Canton to discuss a problem that they’re happy to have.  Increased interest in local grass-fed and free range meat has created a shortage of slaughterhouses in the North Country and across the Northeast.  There are only three USDA-certified abattoirs in northern New York, two in St. Lawrence County and one near Saratoga Springs.  As David Sommerstein reports, meat processors see a big opportunity and a big risk.The Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County is hosting a meeting tonight at 7 to discuss the shortage of slaughterhouse facilities in the region.One note to this story: bison farmer Dale Healey is retiring, but he says it had nothing to do with the slaughterhouse shortage. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15439/20100330/local-meat-boom-exposes-slaughterhouse-shortage">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Speedway in St. Lawrence County back on track</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 22, 2007) A NASCAR-style race track is closer to reality in St. Lawrence County. Northway Island Associates announced purchase of 928 acres of land for the speedway this week.  Martha Foley has more. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/9508/20070622/speedway-in-st-lawrence-county-back-on-track">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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