Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 1:06 pm
BY MATT LINDSEY
North Country This Week
POTSDAM Potsdam Central is taking many steps to educate students about the dangers of social media and its school resource officer wants students to have a trusted adult in mind for when they need help.
The Potsdam Community mourned the loss of 15-year old Riley Basford. He took his own life March 30 after he was told online that embarrassing photos of him would be circulated to his friends and throughout the internet unless he paid $3,500 to the stranger who he thought was a female he met on Facebook.
Potsdam Central School District is hosting state police presentations May 4, 6 on cybercrimes including sextortion, catfishing and online predators.
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 6:05 am Our dedicated maintenance staff knows how very important today s football game is to our seniors, Potsdam Central officials said on their Facebook page. They got a good workout in today shoveling the yard lines so our seniors could play their last home game on the turf field. Potsdam fell to Canton 38-12 in a spring football game played in snow. For more, see story from Old School Sports NNY here. Photo courtesy of Potsdam Central School Facebook page.
Watertown Daily Times Family and friends prepare to release balloons in memory of Riley K. Basford on Monday evening along the Raquette River in Potsdam. The 15-year-old died by suicide last week.
(Provided photo â Ellis Giacomelli/ Watertown Daily Times) A few hundred people visited The Stables at Windy Point on Monday evening to honor Potsdam sophomore and fervent outdoorsman Riley K. Basford.
(Provided photo â Ellis Giacomelli/Watertown Daily Times) Rocks painted with tributes to Riley K. Basford are left on the shore of the Raquette River in Potsdam on Monday evening. One reads âJustice for Riley.â The 15-year-old died by suicide last week following a brief back-and-forth with a Facebook user apparently targeting and blackmailing the teen.
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