10 years ago July 3, 2011: COR Development Co., Fayetteville, is exploring the construction of up to 300 apartments on about 25 acres north of Target in Towne Center, Route 3. The project, called Beaver Meadow Apartments, would decrease the 1,035-unit rental housing need the Fort Drum Regional Liaison Organization, Development Authority of the North Country, Jefferson County Industrial Development Agency, Jefferson County and others are trying to fill. 25 years ago July 3, 1996: Several churches in the Watertown area will join together to raise money for churches in the South that have been destroyed by arsonists. The Greater Watertown Association of Churches will sponsor a special âpraise and worship serviceâ on Aug. 3 at Asbury United Methodist Church to bring awareness of the church fires in the South and collect donations for rebuilding efforts. There have been about 40 suspicious fires at predominantly black churches, the majority of them in the Southeast, since January 1995.