Essex News

Essex County lawmakers are balking at paying additional communications costs for the county's Enhanced 911 system.

'based Community Bank said it would pay a 12 percent deposit premium in the deal, which will add about $135 million in loans and $630 million in deposits.

North Country Community College wants $45,000 more from each sponsoring county for its tentative 2008-09 budget.

A small cable operator in upstate New York says Lifetime Television pulled its signal last week after the operator refused to enter a package deal that required analog tier carriage of Lifetime Movie Network as ...

“State and county leaders are concerned about our flat growth”

Most of upstate New York continues to lag behind downstate and the rest of the country in population growth. via Watertown Daily Times

Gertrude Schreiber, 91, formerly of Mountainview Avenue, Mayfield, passed away Friday evening at the Edward L. Wilkinson Residential Health Care Facility where she had resided for the past two years. via Gloversville Leader-Herald

Governor David Paterson Tuesday announced six grants totaling $5.5 million to help businesses in Upstate New York expand their operations, retain 148 jobs and create 1,013 new jobs. via Empire State News

“The thing with New York New York is it meets a real need for a nightclub to cater for older clientele here in Basildon. "Over-25s don't want to be partying with 18-year-olds and here they won't have to.”

START spreading the news... Bas Vegas's latest nightclub, New York New York, is well and truly open for business - and revellers may well want to be a part of it. via This is Southend

“The school is at a critical point where something needs to be done soon or it will be beyond the point of repair.”

A developer recently gave Willsboro School Board more details about his plans for the old school building. via Press-Republican

“Now that the power has remained out, residents are in need of additional shelter.”

Vehicles navigate County Route 7 in Mineville after the weekend-s devastating ice and wind storm. via Press-Republican

CHEERS : to registered nurses Tess Dumas and Phil Dabiew for quickly and professionally applying their skills when called upon last week to deliver a baby after a young mother went into labor in the visitors' ... via Press-Republican

“That bridge is going to be closed”

In all, 17 bridges in Essex, Clinton and Franklin counties were rated as "intolerable" and structurally deficient in the June 2007 government report. via Press-Republican

“Farm equipment moves slowly; cars fly. Vital farm drainage concerns with surface water and spring runoff are aided with the deep-set roads. The rock roads protect from road pollutants salt, mining tailings and road grease.”

A State Supreme Court judge has ruled that roads built in Lewis Farm fields do not interfere with town road maintenance. via Press-Republican

“My predecessor (Tony Glebus) had just started when the Ice Storm hit 10 years ago, so maybe it's not a good idea to be elected supervisor in Lewis.”

Although the wind rushed through the area as fast as a runaway freight train, the cleanup in its aftermath has been taking somewhat longer. via Press-Republican

Douglas O. Morgan, a publisher whose extensive collection of rare 19th Century wood type letterforms helped start a graphic design revival, died Dec. via Chicago Tribune

“We pay when they go to a community college other than North Country”

Students who went to a community college outside Essex County cost the county $700,000 in tuition chargebacks this year. via Press-Republican

“My last legitimate job was as Essex town supervisor.”

At Jim LaForest's Pretty Good Bookstore in downtown Whallonsburg, the Do Nothing Club holds its semi-weekly unconventional convention. via Press-Republican

“It's the most important job in society”

Steven Kellogg says he'd probably would have become a teacher had his career as a children's author/illustrator not panned out. via Ashtabula Star-Beacon

“This is a municipality, this is a community in the state of New York ... We should have the same rights that any other community in the state has to provide clean drinking water.”

Every voting New Yorker will soon have a say whether an Adirondack hamlet can continue to use a well with clear drinking water in the forest preserve, or if the 125 people who live there have to go back to ... via Newsday.com

CHEERS : to local Assembly members Teresa Sayward and Janet Duprey , who attended an announcement by Gov. via Press-Republican