Taco Bell being considered in Ogdensburg northcountrynow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from northcountrynow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
OGDENSBURG â An Ogdensburg woman will be celebrating her 100th birthday Sunday and St. Johnâs Church will be hosting an open house to mark this special event.
Imogene Eliza Wager, a lifelong Ogdensburg resident and parishioner of St. Johnâs Church, will be turning 100, and Rev. Carolyn Bartkus says that all are welcome to share best wishes and enjoy some refreshments as they celebrate with in Parish Hall at St. Johnâs Church on Sunday from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
âWe are just asking for best wishes. People that know her or Leslie or her family please stop by and give her well wishes,â said Rev. Bartkus.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021 - 5:28 pm
BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week
OGDENSBURG City council tabled a resolution calling on the state to address blight at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric center Monday for fears that the move might impact the state prison closures, which have yet to be announced.
On Monday Deputy Mayor John Rishe garnered support from fellow councilors to call on the state to clean up the long vacant buildings at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center.
Rishe said that the state has taken no action to stabilize buildings on the SLPC property that have been vacant since the early 1980s.
OGDENSBURG â Following a lengthy discussion during the July City Council meeting on Monday night, councilors decided to table a resolution requesting the state take âimmediate actionâ to address the various deteriorating buildings on St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center land.
Councilors shared concerns on the âstrongâ wording of the resolution and what kind of message it would send to the state and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, especially as another round of prison closures are expected to be announced some time soon.
In December of last year, days before Christmas, the state announced that three prisons would close March 1 of this year, two of which were in the north country â Watertown Correctional Facility and the Clinton Annex. Fourteen of the 20 state prisons and correction facilities closed over the last decade have taken place upstate, or north of Dutchess County.
Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 5:05 pm
BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week
OGDENSBURG Some Ogdensburg officials are calling on the state to clean up the long vacant buildings at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center.
Ogdensburg City Council is set to act on a resolution calling on New York State to take action on “the blight and public safety threat caused by their unmaintained property at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center.”
The city says that the state has taken no action to stabilize buildings on the SLPC property that have been vacant since the early 1980s.
“The State of New York continues to neglect these buildings to the pointthat they have become a public health hazard and a blight on the City of Ogdensburg,” the resolution says. “No funding has been appropriated tosave these historical treasures, despite the fact that the State set up and operates a historic preservation program and office.”