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OGDENSBURG — With the return of the Ogdensburg Journal next month, the city now has a third “official” newspaper.

OGDENSBURG — Following a heated debate about the language of fellow councilors, City Council voted Thursday to censure councilor Michael B. Powers. On April 12, during a regularly scheduled council meeting, Mr. Powers engaged in a back-and-forth with City Manager Stephen P. Jellie over a section of state education law. “Save your f---ing — save your comments, man,” Mr. Powers said to Mr. Jellie during the April 12 meeting. “You know what, save your condescending comments. “I apologize, I apologize,” Mr. Powers said immediately after, according to a video rec...

OGDENSBURG — After City Council was unable to pass a resolution Monday night allowing the city manager to enter into a lease agreement with the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority for a proposed city beach on authority land, council on Thursday night was able to pass the resolution. Mayor Jeffrey M. Skelly earlier this week called for the Thursday night special council meeting to vote on the censure of councilor Michael B. Powers, which also passed, and to authorize City Manager Stephen P. Jellie to sign a lease agreement with OBPA to reopen the city beach. The resolution states that Ci...

OGDENSBURG — City Council on Monday night was unable to pass a resolution allowing the city manager to enter into a lease agreement with the Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority for a proposed city beach on authority land. Last week, City Manager Stephen P. Jellie, to the full OBPA Board of Directors, presented the city’s proposal to reopen the beach behind the OBPA administrative office near the Ogdensburg-Prescott International Bridge. Mayor Jeffrey M. Skelly and Deputy Mayor John A. Rishe accompanied Mr. Jellie to the meeting and gave their own testimony as to why they think OBPA...

OGDENSBURG — The Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority Board of Directors took no action Thursday on the city’s proposal to open a beach on authority land this summer, but is expected to send City Council a counter proposal in time for its Monday night meeting. City Council, during its March 24 meeting, passed a resolution setting a goal to open a city beach by July 1. The resolution, which was passed unanimously, states that the least expensive and quickest way to achieve the July 1 goal is to reopen the former city beach on OBPA land. But controversy soon ensued as OBPA leadership ...