Gaffney Drive News Today

WATERTOWN — John C. Forney, 33, Antwerp, was charged by city police on March 21 when police executed a bench warrant and a warrant of arrest.

JENKINS TWP. — Police in Jenkins Township charged a Bear Creek Township man on allegations he solicited a 15-year-old girl for sex including sending nude…

A Memorial Service for Samuel C. Porter, 76, a resident at the ARC residential home on Gaffney Drive in Watertown, who passed away February 10, 2022 will be held 11

Samuel C. Porter, 76, a resident at the ARC residential home on Gaffney Drive in Watertown, passed away February 10, 2022 at the Samaritan Medical Center.

A project several years in the making to improve an exceptional Northern New York organization resulted in a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week. Representatives of The Arc Jefferson-St. Lawrence celebrated the completion of renovation work July 15. The 43,000-square-foot structure on Gaffney Drive in Watertown opened in 1968, and the only significant improvement occurred when an addition was built in 1972. The $12 million project began three years ago. This included initial planning, design and ...

WATERTOWN — With a countdown from five, a group of those close to the project brandished the pairs of large, gold scissors handed to them and cut the ribbon for the reopening ceremony of The Arc Jefferson-St. Lawrence’s Gaffney Drive facility Thursday evening, a culmination of years of work and millions of dollars. The renovation project has taken about three years to complete, including initial planning, design and engineering, construction and a capital campaign to assist with the c...

Miss Teresa Anne Burdick (TC), age 57, passed away January 13, 2021. She is the fourth child of Charles F. and Virginia R. (Puccia) Burdick of Watertown. Growing up, she started out attending the ARC on Gaffney Drive, actually helping to cut the ribbon of the new building, along with Senator Barclay at the time, in 1966. She later attended Starbuck School, Wiley School and received her Individual Education Program diploma from Watertown High School in 1984. She and her classmates were one of th...