POTSDAM â Potsdam-Mayor Reinhold Tischler has announced that a historic marker memorializing the original site of the Crane Institute of Music will be installed at 10 a.m. June 11.
The marker will be placed at the site of Julia E. Craneâs Main Street home, where she established the Crane Normal Institute of Music in 1886.
Crane School went on to become one of the nationâs first schools to train public school music teachers.The Crane School became part of the Potsdam Normal School, later SUNY Potsdam, in 1926.
Today, generations of top music educators, performers and scholars are Crane alumni, and Crane continues to be vital to the areaâs cultural and economic landscape.
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 1:24 pm
BY ADAM ATKINSON
North Country This Week
POTSDAM The Potsdam village board has voted to officially accept a settlement with the attorneys for toilet garden impresario Hank Robar, but the settlement amount will not be disclosed until the agreement is finalized.
The board held a special meeting Monday, May 24 and voted “yes” to the undisclosed amount.
One of Robar’s attorney’s, Jon Crain of the Albany firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, declined comment on the settlement amount, and estimated it would take about 30 days to finalize the agreement before details of the settlement could be revealed.
Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 6:11 pm
State Sen. Joe Griffo tours Potsdam s Garner Park earlier today. He helped secured state funding for the project. A local match for the funding included $50,000 each from St. Lawrence Health System and Clarkson University. Above are state and local officials with members of the Garner family. From left, Sen. Joe Griffo, Potsdam Mayor Reinhold Tischler, Clarkson President Tony Collins, Joan Garner, David Haggard and Margaret Garner Haggard. NCNow photo.
BY ADAM ATKINSON
North Country This Week
POTSDAM – New York State Sen. Joseph Griffo, R-I-C-Rome, today was in Potsdam to present The Clarkson Inn in Potsdam with a New York State Senate Empire Award, and to get a look at the Garner Park rehab project.
Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 6:11 pm
State Sen. Joe Griffo tours Potsdam s Garner Park earlier today. He helped secured state funding for the project. A local match for the funding included $50,000 each from St. Lawrence Health System and Clarkson University. Above are state and local officials with members of the Garner family. From left, Sen. Joe Griffo, Potsdam Mayor Reinhold Tischler, Clarkson President Tony Collins, Joan Garner, David Haggard and Margaret Garner Haggard. See story for more details. NCNow photo.
The potties can stay in Potsdam, putting an end to a 16 year battle over a famous toilet garden in upstate New York.
The Potsdam Village Board of Trustees ordered Frederick “Hank” Robar s famous toilet gardens to be removed in July 2020. The board voted unanimously to have Robar take down his toilets by September 1st for being in violation of the junk storage law. Robar took the case to federal court and won, barring village officials from touching his toilets.
February 1st, the board changed their mind. “After considering the order of United States district court, we hereby rescind the resolution directing Mr. Robar to remove the toilets,” Potsdam Mayor Reinhold Tischler announced Monday.