Russell News

Tuesday's Northern Athletic Conference Division II golf match between host Heuvelton and Salmon River and Brushton-Moira at Gilbert Greens Golf Course started 25 minutes late with a hostile cloud bank building on the horizon.

A new $450,000 St. Lawrence County Fire Training Facility in West Potsdam is one step closer to reality, following a $60,000 grant announced last week from the St.

E.J. Noble Hospital is trying to get its financial footing, after a tough year. The Gouverneur-based hospital was forced to shut down last fall by the state health department, because of safety problems in the lab.

St. Lawrence County's three state senators will co-sponsor home rule legislation that would allow an increase in the local sales tax, county Legislative Chairman Jonathan S. Putney, D-Waddington, said.

The St. Lawrence County Board of Legislators is changing its budget parameters so that spending is based more on available revenue and less on department requests as a way to get a better handle on the county's finances.

Assemblywoman Addie Russell is to be the keynote speaker at the New York State AAUW Convention in Lake Placid Saturday.