Canton, Massena, Ogdensburg housing authorities sharing $1 8M in federal HUD money 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.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 8:25 pm
BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week
CANTON – St. Lawrence County athletes participating in high-risk sports will not be required to take COVID-19 tests.
The State Education Department told schools Feb. 16 that they could not require testing of athletes playing high-risk sports like hockey and basketball, unless the county public health departments mandate it.
That news is requiring some school districts that approved sports safety plans to revisit their documents as some, like Canton, had planned to require testing.
“On Tuesday, the New York State Education Department issued a memo that unless required by the County Public Health Department, schools cannot require COVID-19 testing as a condition to participate in athletics or extracurricular activities. This memo has placed a number of schools around the state in a difficult situation with their plans no longer being compliant,” a statement issued by Canton Cen
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Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 6:07 am
BY ADAM ATKINSON
North Country This Week
POTSDAM – The public will again have an opportunity to consider and comment on if village residents should be allowed to keep chickens and chicken coops inside village limits.
A public hearing on the matter will be held Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 5:45 p.m.
In July 2020, the village board of trustees voted down a change to local code which would have allowed chickens to be kept at village residences. At that time, the board felt the proposed change, which set permission standards and setbacks for coops, would be too restrictive.
While the village board has been supportive of the idea of local residents raising chickens as a way to promote individual food sovereignty, local criticism of the idea has surfaced. Letters to the editor of North Country This Week against the idea have been published, and a survey on North Country Now last summer showed 61 percent of the respondents were not in
Friday, January 29, 2021 - 8:37 am
To the Editor:
In response to “SLC Republican Chairwoman Stands With Stefanik” which appeared i the Jan. 23-29 issue of North Country This Week: Questions remain unanswered only until Republican Party operatives admit and take responsibility for perpetrating and doubling down on the Big Lie and its deadly fallout. There exists no second answer.
Continuing support for The Big Lie, advanced since the summer of 2020 – i.e., a 2020 election loss by President Trump must be explainable only by widespread voter fraud – launched by the former president and parroted even now by Republican Party operatives from Arizona to New York s North Country, definitively refutes any attempts to differentiate between Cult 45 and the Republican Party.