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BLACK RIVER — The a 32- by-22-foot former children’s room at the back of the Sally Ploof Hunter Memorial Library was filled with more than 30 people May 28 as ....
Saturday, April 10, 2021 - 8:18 am BY JIMMY LAWTON North Country This Week New York State s record-breaking $212 billion budget sends a lot of money to a lot of places that need funding, but Assemblyman Mark Walczyk, R-Watertown, questions the long-term impact of increasing spending by $36 billion in a single year. Weeks before the budget passed, Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned of a $16 billion gap, then $5 billion in new revenues were found and the federal government bolstered state coffers to the tune of $28.5 million. The end result? New York lawmakers went into the budget season with a massive gap and increased overall spending by nearly 25 percent. ....