Sunday, January 31, 2021 - 7:51 am BY ANDY GARDNER North Country This Week CANTON – St. Lawrence County legislators questioned if they could clear a debt of over $800,000 that the City of Ogdensburg owes the county from unpaid property taxes 18 years ago. The discussion took place during the legislature’s Jan. 25 Finance Committee meeting when County Treasurer Renee Cole was asking the board to approve a budget change to accommodate sales tax revenue in 2020 that was $1.8 million more than anticipated. The budget modification passed unanimously. Legislator Joe Lightfoot, R-Ogdensburg, said Ogdensburg City Manager Stephen Jellie “at one time mentioned that the city owed the county, I think the figure he used was over $800,000” and asked Cole to clarify how that happened.