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<title>Emissions a problem in using grass as fuel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 7, 2012) North Country farmers working with Cornell Cooperative Extension have been raising switchgrass for years. This region is a good one for growing grass. And there&apos;s lots of &quot;marginal&quot; land.Switchgrass looks like a promising crop...and source of heat. But other research here shows there&apos;s a big problem with burning switchgrass pellets for heat: emissions, namely carbon monoxide. Mike Newtown teaches in the energy technology department at SUNY Canton. He says grass pellets will emit between 1,000 to 15,000 parts per million of carbon monoxide—he says about 35 parts per million of Carbon Monoxide gas would be acceptable. Working with colleagues at Clarkson University, Newtown&apos;s been researching how well switchgrass burns. They found that the pellets can be a good source of heat, measured in British Thermal Units or BTUs—but as it turns out, switchgrass just doesn&apos;t burn that well. Not nearly as well as cord wood, to name another native biofuel. Grass, he says, is just different. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21028/20121207/emissions-a-problem-in-using-grass-as-fuel">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Smart grid research gets funding boost</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 23, 2012) Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced New York would invest $250 million to develop smart grid technologies to modernize the state&apos;s energy grid. A Clarkson University professor working on smart energy grid systems was just awarded a grant by IBM. The $10,000 prize will help him continue his research, and develop coursework for students to train the next generation to use this hot technology. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20936/20121123/smart-grid-research-gets-funding-boost">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>North Country Children&apos;s Museum starts with traveling exhibit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 25, 2012) The North Country Children&apos;s Museum is slated to open its doors in the fall of 2015. But organizers aren’t waiting three years to start reaching out to their potential audience. They’re on the road with a traveling exhibit this summer, visiting festivals and conferences with what they call their museum without walls. Jasmine Wallace ran across the robot zone booth in the middle of the busy, noisy Potsdam Summer festival earlier this month. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20189/20120725/north-country-children-apos-s-museum-starts-with-traveling-exhibit">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Moving the world:  from child soldier to community servant </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jul 10, 2012) In our occasional series, Moving the World, we meet people who share their skills, expertise and resources with communities around the globe. Ricky Richard Anywar has survived his share of trouble. At 14, he was abducted by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda and forced into slavery as a child soldier. His family was killed by the LRA. But Anywar escaped two years later. Despite what he calls an “interrupted childhood,” he earned a college degree. That led to work with the Ugandan Ministry of Education. For more than 10 years he has worked to give back to his native Uganda by empowering and reintegrating former child soldiers.Anywar is founder and executive director of “Friends of Orphans,” or FRO, which pays the school fees for former child soldiers and young mothers. It runs vocational programs, counseling groups, and HIV/AIDS clinics. Clarkson University is working with FRO to help establish a community-based radio station. A group of Clarkson business students visited Uganda and the site for the proposed radio station in May.Todd Moe spoke with Ricky Richard Anywar last week during his visit to Clarkson. He was on campus to speak to students and faculty about rebuilding war-ravaged northern Uganda. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20112/20120710/moving-the-world-from-child-soldier-to-community-servant">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Potsdam considers police force size</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 22, 2012) 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. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19861/20120522/potsdam-considers-police-force-size">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Digital arts and science merge in Clarkson senior show</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 4, 2011) Combining art and computer science isn&apos;t a new concept.  But in the last few years, more universities around the country have taken digital arts more seriously.  Todd Moe previews an exhibit in Potsdam this Friday that&apos;s the result of a curriculum that includes art, design, math and computer science. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17571/20110504/digital-arts-and-science-merge-in-clarkson-senior-show">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Creating new art in old spaces</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 2, 2010) The St. Lawrence County Arts Council has run out of room at its storefront headquarters in downtown Potsdam.  Faced with the challenge of offering more art classes and limited space, the Arts Council recently expanded to unused rooms in a building owned by Clarkson University.  Executive Director Hilary Oak gave Todd Moe a tour of old Snell Hall this week.  She says bringing new art to an old space is a step toward developing a multi-arts building in Potsdam that would serve all of the North Country.  Oak says the former classrooms were &quot;waiting to be used again.&quot; [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/15761/20100602/creating-new-art-in-old-spaces">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>State looks to invest in NC</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 9, 2009) State Comptroller Thomas Dinapoli was at Clarkson University in Potsdam yesterday. It was the last of what he called his &quot;roadshow&quot; stops to promote New York&apos;s in-state private equity investment program. The program channels state retirement money to businesses in the state, or those who will come to New York. As Martha Foley report, Dinapoli said New York has done a good job at developing intellectual capital but the money isn&apos;t always there. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/14311/20090909/state-looks-to-invest-in-nc">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Hospital expansion plan forces debate over change in Potsdam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 2, 2009) From Washington to Albany, the future of America&apos;s health care system is on the table. New York State has already closed and consolidated several hospitals in a planned restructuring that won’t wrap up until at least 2011. In Potsdam, though, the hospital is hoping to expand. But not everyone’s cheering. The Canton-Potsdam Hospital is in a residential area – with Potsdam High School across one street, and single family homes on other sides. Neighbors are worried about big new medical buildings and more traffic. As Jonathan Brown reports, the expansion has sparked debate over change and how to make it work for the hospital, its neighbors and the future of the village. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13651/20090602/hospital-expansion-plan-forces-debate-over-change-in-potsdam">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Celebrating Holi, even in ice and snow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 12, 2009) This week marks the culmination of spring festivities in India.  The last major festival before the end of the lunar year is called Holi, or the Festival of Colors.  It’s celebrated by music, bonfires, feasts and people throwing colored powder and colored water at each other.   In India, flowers are blooming, winter crops have been harvested, houses are cleaned and it’s a cause for celebration.   Even in the North Country, some celebrate the festival of colors, love and hope. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13153/20090312/celebrating-holi-even-in-ice-and-snow">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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