OGDENSBURG — Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul has been sent a letter signed by more than a dozen state legislators who want to discuss the decision to close six correctional facilities
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MORRISTOWN — Local elected officials and candidates, as well as a few of the north country’s representatives to the federal government, all gathered Sunday for a meet-and-greet barbecue.
CANTON â A more than two-year wait for a $6 million state grant for St. Lawrence County emergency services is over.
The county Board of Legislatorsâ Operations Committee last week unanimously passed a resolution authorizing board chair William J. Sheridan to sign a contract with the state and modify the 2021 budget to reflect a $6 million revenue increase from the 2018 Statewide Interoperable Communications Targeted Grant program for radio dispatch upgrades.
SICG-Targeted is part of a collection of interoperable communications grants administered by the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services. A total $65 million was available in the 2018 targeted round, separate from annual formula and operations grants for emergency communications systems.
Watertown Daily Times New Yorkers this November will be asked to consider a constitutional amendment years in the making for the water they drink and for the very air they breathe. The amendment to Article 1 of the state Constitution has now passed both houses of the state Legislature in consecutive two-year sessions, a requirement of the constitutional amendment process that culminates in a public vote. Concurrent Senate and Assembly bills proposing the amendment were passed in 2019, and were again passed in the Senate last month and the Assembly on Monday afternoon. A singular sentence, proposed as Senate Bill 528 and Assembly Bill 1368, will appear on the Nov. 2 ballot.