Ellisburg News

For the past 45 Independence Days, Timothy Collette, Redwood, has come to the same spot at the Westcott Beach picnic area for a family reunion.

The loss is expected to exceed a million dollors in a fire early this morning that leveled a feed processing building and its grain tower at Houghton Farm Supply, 15194 Route 193.

Some southern Jefferson County residents may have to travel farther to receive primary care once Dr.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department on Monday afternoon identified the person killed in an accident late Sunday afternoon on Interstate 81 as Eleanor F. Stevens, 89, Black River.

Monday, June 08, 2009 at 4:25 a.m. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is investigating a two car fatal accident on Interstate 81 in the Town of Ellisburg.

Deputies say two cars flipped over when one tried to pass the other along Route 81 in the town of Ellisburg.

One person was killed and three were injured in a two car crash in southern Jefferson County on Sunday.One vehicle was passing another in the northbound lanes of Interstate 81 in Ellisburg about 5 p.m. when they collided, according to the sheriff's department.

At a time when dairy farmers are facing low revenue for milk and high production costs, many of them say the last thing they need is a law mandating time-and-a-half pay for overtime hours.

Frank Reynolds' letter published May 20 suggests a move afoot to process all outgoing mail from every 136 zip code in Syracuse.

The following people are charged with driving while intoxicated and related offenses: Justin E. Rankin, 22, of 26620 Boyer Circle, Evans Mills, was charged by Jefferson County sheriff's deputies with felony aggravated DWI and having inadequate lights at 2 a.m. Thursday on Eastern Boulevard in Watertown.

Jefferson County will be forced to buy $656,567 worth of road salt it doesn't want if its 29 towns and villages, the city and the city school district don't make another purchase by May 1. American Rock Salt, Mount Morris, is requiring the group to purchase at least 60 percent of the 37,075 tons it thought it would need this winter.

An Oswego County woman is facing five charges, including aggravated driving while intoxicated, after her vehicle struck and damaged a garage Saturday night on Route 193 in Ellisburg, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

Jefferson County may be stuck with a shed full of overpriced road salt if its town highway chiefs don't honor a verbal commitment they made last fall to purchase part of the supply.

Researchers said last week they may be gaining the upper hand against a tiny green invader that has plagued north country farmers for more than a century.

The resurrection from the ashes of a June fire is now complete for Berry Bros. Lumber Co.

Thomas J. Collins The investigation into a one vehicle fatal crash in Jefferson County last summer has lead to the arrest of the driver on multiple charges.

The decentralized system of assessing property within Jefferson County has created a hodgepodge of practices leading to confusion and inequitable treatment of property owners.

Up to 40 Jefferson County dairy farms are expected to go out of production this year, costing the county 80 jobs and millions of dollars in revenue.

A Hogansburg woman was being held without bail in the Metro-Jefferson Public Safety Building on Thursday after state police said she had 38 pounds of high-grade hydroponic marijuana in her vehicle.

Troopers say 56 year old Catherine K. Herne was stopped for speeding while southbound on I-81 in the Jefferson County town of Ellisburg on Wednesday.