Cape Vincent News

Local governments across New York State are struggling to make ends meet. They are seeing sales tax revenues fall amid the recession while pension and health care costs continue to rise.

A Brownville man has been indicted on 21 charges alleging that he repeatedly sexually abused a 15-year-old girl.

The Rescue Mission's Liverpool Thrifty Shopper will open early Friday for a live radio broadcast.

Opposing interests Monday discussed a potential compromise on the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act, but a north country senator said the two sides still hold a "fundamental disagreement" on what the bill should do.

A state Supreme Court judge has dismissed a town of Cape Vincent man's Article 78 petition that sought to overturn the town Zoning Board of Appeals' revocation of his permit for the construction of a 92-foot personal wind turbine.

Creation of the long-sought North Country Power Authority could come early next year as changes to the enabling state legislation have led National Grid and the Independent Power Producers of New York to withdraw objections.

The New York Power Authority is seeking proposals from wind developers to build as many as 100 or more offshore wind turbines in Lake Ontario or Lake Erie, a project that could create North America's first offshore wind farm.

Rachael Whitney and Kathleen Kearney, of Syracuse, were married in Massachusetts on October 18th.

A Watertown man was sentenced Monday in Jefferson County Court to a year in the Metro-Jefferson Public Safety Building and 10 years' probation for having sexual intercourse with two underage girls.

To the people of the town of Cape Vincent: Many of you probably feel disillusioned or even devastated by the results of the town elections.

A Syracuse man found incompetent to stand trial in the 1987 shooting deaths of a co-worker and Dexter's police chief is unlikely to be released from a secure psychiatric center.

The Jefferson County Board of Legislators will take its time in considering a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for the proposed Galloo Island Wind Farm.

In response to the comment by "outgoing" Cape Vincent Supervisor Thomas Rienbeck wherein he refers to seasonal voters as selfish rich folks only interested in their cottages: Mr.

The recent column "giving away the farm" by Perry White contains many inaccuracies and suppositions almost too numerous to count.

This letter could be bitter and hateful like all the past letters to the editor from the anti-wind posse.

The family of an emergency medical technician shot to death while answering a call in Cape Vincent in January has asked a judge to order the release of the 911 emergency dispatch recordings of the call.

A highly-anticipated Board of Legislators meeting tonight will focus on the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for the proposed Galloo Island Wind Farm.

Jefferson County's Board of Legislators slowed down its consideration of the payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for the proposed Galloo Island Wind Farm.

The proposed Farm Workers Fair Labor Practices Act, if passed by the state Legislature, would force farmers to cut jobs, limit employees' hours or close their farms, according to almost all who testified Thursday at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing in Watertown.

Oswego County Clerk George Williams will join St. Lawrence County Clerk Patricia Ritchie in Watertown at 10:30 a.m. to present petitions opposing the state's plan to make motorists buy new license plates to two state legislators.