St. Regis Falls News

The St. Regis Falls Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department is hosting its 100th-annual field day and fireworks show on the Fourth of July.

Thursday, June 18, 2009, 10:35am HOPKINTON - A St. Regis Falls woman was injured Wednesday after the car she was riding in overturned.

Canton-based State Police arrested Mark G. Maitland, 19, of St. Regis Falls following an accident yesterday.

Helen Laura Whitman, 81, St. Regis Falls. Helen Laura Whitman, 81, passed away peacefully on June 8 2009 at home, with her loving family by her side, after a courageous battle with cancer.

The following are charged with driving while intoxicated and related offenses: Michael E. Enslow, 31, of 5656 Maple Ave., Lowville, was charged by state police with felony DWI, resisting arrest and refusal to submit to a breath test at 2:30 a.m. Friday on Snell Road in the town of Watson.

School administrations must be breathing a sigh of relief throughout the North Country and the entire state, after seeing the resounding success they had selling school budgets to voters Tuesday.

Voters who rejected a budget proposal with a 5.66-percent tax-levy increase may get a 4.8-percent hike under a contingency plan.

Only one North Country school saw its budget defeated Tuesday: St. Regis Falls. The proposed 2009-10 budget of $7,590,163 went down by a vote of 187 against 88 in favor.

St. Regis Falls was the only North Country school district to have its budget rejected in Tuesday's voting.

A Franklin County Jail corrections officer was arrested on misconduct and sexual abuse charges, according to New York State Police.

Thursday, April 23, 2009, 9:55am State police have arrested a St. Regis Falls man for pot possession, a Canton resident for trespassing and three Fine teens with criminal mischief.

An 87-year-old woman is in critical condition after suffering second- and third-degree burns from a house fire Wednesday night caused by a kerosene lamp she was using to keep warm during a power outage, Harold Snyder, the victim's son, said.

Fire and rescue squads were called out near midnight last night to a house fire at 91 River Street in Nicholville.

On April 4, 2009, the New York State Police in Malone arrested NATHAN L. LANGDON, age 19, of Dickinson Center, New York, for one count of Burglary in the third degree.

Massena-based State Police arrested Waide Belile, 51, of St. Regis Falls, on 3 Counts of Issuing a Bad Check.

William S. Reyes Jr., 27, of 845 Starbuck Ave., Apt. 1302, was arrested Saturday night on several charges, including driving while intoxicated, after a domestic dispute began at his home and continued to Seaway Plaza in the town of Pamelia, Jefferson County sheriff's deputies said.

Four local men are in custody and another is being sought for allegedly breaking into a Moira home, brandishing a gun and stealing a wallet Tuesday night.

A fugitive from Wisconsin was captured last evening after fleeing a traffic stop earlier in Potsdam.

Kenneth H. Foley, 94 of St. Regis Falls, passed away Thursday, January 22, 2009 at Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone.

Last week, a Letter to the Editor from a frequent correspondent was published, questioning why the case of a Franklin County legislator who had apparently overbilled his county for mileage reimbursement hadn't ...