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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>State Announces Adirondack Campground Repairs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 17, 2002) Campgrounds and trails in the Adirondacks will receive more than two million dollars for maintenance projects.  The state funding was announced Wednesday by Environmental Conservation commissioner Erin Crotty.  She appeared at a ceremony at the Fish Creek campground near Tupper Lake.  Brian Mann has details. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/1983/20021017/state-announces-adirondack-campground-repairs">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Keeseville Firm Wins Military Grant</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 14, 2002) A company in Essex County has won a 1.5 million dollar military research grant to develop a new kind of rifle scope.  The scope would allow soldiers to take photographs during combat.  Brian Mann has details. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/1968/20021014/keeseville-firm-wins-military-grant">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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