FORT DRUM — There’s one word the garrison commander at Fort Drum uses to describe the way the local governments and the military post responded to the coronavirus pandemic —
WATERTOWN — Jefferson County has three communities with concerningly low vaccination rates, according to data from New York state, but county Board of Legislators Chairman Scott A. Gray said that’s
WATERTOWN — Jefferson County has three communities with concerningly low vaccination rates, according to data from New York state, but county Board of Legislators Chairman Scott A. Gray said that’s
Verena (Rena) E. Young passed away peacefully at Carthage Area Hospital in the early morning hours of Friday, May, 21, 2021 after a prolonged and valiant struggle to recover from a serious stroke.
She was born December 12, 1925, the only daughter in a family of seven to Fred and Ethel Smiley in Cochrane, Ont. Canada.
She was educated in the Canadian Public Schools and after deciding on a career in business she enrolled and graduated from Shaw Business School and then attended the University of Toronto, working towards her CPA.
While working in Toronto and enjoying tennis, photography, horseback riding, birding and skiing in the Laurentian Mountains, she met her future husband John E. G. Young who had been recruited in England by Avro Canada to work on the Arrow fighter plane. They were married in October of 1959.