Erik Backus News Today

CANTON – A capstone project by a group of Clarkson University students focused on plans for a new municipal building in the Village of Canton. Under the tutelage of Professor Erik Backus, …

POTSDAM — The Village Board on Tuesday night officially voted to do away with parking meters and implement free two-hour parking downtown.

A group of about 40 North Country locals, from professors and meteorologists to village board members, came together for a roundtable at Clarkson University in Potsdam recently to talk through the future of climate change in our region and ways to adapt.

POTSDAM — The village board convened a public hearing on Monday night to discuss parking code changes, aiming to introduce free two-hour parking zones in lieu of paid metered spaces.

POTSDAM — Two special meetings of the Potsdam Village Board of Trustees are scheduled for the coming week, one to pass the coming fiscal year’s preliminary budget and the other to hear …

POTSDAM — The town board passed a “Pro-Housing Communities” resolution that makes Potsdam eligible for new discretionary grant funding.

POTSDAM — The village board has given the green light naming a new coordinator and a fresh task force of 19 for its Climate Smart Communities Task Force, a joint

A Clarkson University professor and a master’s candidate in Environmental Policy both made contributions to two technical chapters of The New York State Climate Impacts Assessment: …

POTSDAM — A discussion of the village’s finances and how that information will be accessible to trustees is on the agenda for the next Potsdam village board of trustees meeting Tuesday, …

POTSDAM — A recent examination of parking patterns in the downtown business district may assist the board of trustees in deciding how to proceed with paid parking areas during the