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The Strand originally opened in 1923, showing silent movies. At different times, the theater building included a dance hall and barbershop. Older residents remember it as a place to get local news and spend an inexpensive weekend night. A lot had...
Local advocates say many North Country providers and centers will receive the grants, but that the money won't address the deeper financial trouble than many are in.
Gouverneur Community Center, a polling place. Photo: Amy Feiereisel Jul 12, 2021 — The commission tasked with drawing new district lines for the state’s congressional and state legislative seats will hold nine public hearings that they say describe as a virtual listening tour, to involve the public in how the districts should be structured. Commission members say the public hearings, all to be held over Zoom, will allow communities to have a voice on how they want the new Senate, Assembly and congressional districts to be designed. Commission Chair David Imamura says he wants the public...
Monday, July 5, 2021 - 6:40 pm AKWESASNE — The exhibit “Akwesasne at Work," a collaboration between the Akwesasne Cultural Center Museum and NCPR’s North Country at Work project, opens at the Akwesasne Cultural Center Museum on July 6. Hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 am to 3pm, and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. funded by the National Archives. Since early 2019, the two institutions have worked together to collect more than 100 images and 30 stories that explore the current and historical role of work in Akwesasne, from logging to ironworking, basket...
May 11, 2021 — Amy FeiereiselNorth Country summer camps coming back to life and filling up fast Canoeing at 4-H Camp Overlook in Malone, NY. 2019. Photo courtesy of 4-H Camp Overlook and Cornell Copperative Extension. Creating a bubble This year, New York summer camps are all about cohorts, pods, and bubbles. Not soap bubbles, said Doug Fuhrman, but a social bubble to try and keep COVID-19 out, "...there’s a lot of talk in the camping world about bubbles, and creating a bubble that you can be safe within.” Campers at North Country Camps in Keeseville, NY. Photo courtesy of North Co...