Franklin County News

The die is cast; with shad stocks at record lows, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is starting the process to close our historic Hudson River shad fishery for both recreational and commercial fishermen.

Comment on this story WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009 A plane crash in the town of Newcomb in the Adirondacks has left two men dead.

The state watchdog has found that one state Department of Transportation employee ran his private business on state time while another made excessive personal phone calls.

The battle is on to see who will provide area airports with daily commuter service.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 8:50am By CRAIG FREILICH St. Lawrence County has fewer residents than it did in 2000, and those that left had higher average incomes than those that came in, a recently released report says.

Dan Wills was something of a homegrown aviation legend in the Adirondacks, where he ran a flight school and taught dozens of North Country residents the skill and finesse required to fly a small plane across 6 million acres of mountains, ponds, tall pines and trackless wilderness.

A Franklin County man is recovering after being attacked by a 10-point buck while he was loading firewood.

A Near East Side man pleaded guilty today to one count of murder for the shooting death of an acquaintance on April 29.

It's been eight months since a fire at the Riverview group home destroyed a state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities facility, killed four of the home's nine residents and displaced the others.

The Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York Council Board of Directors is reviewing the fate of the council's three large residential camps in the Adirondack Park.

The Franklin County Industrial Development Agency is changing its mission to attract small business and is interviewing for a new executive director.

Two Capital Region residents -- one from Albany, the other from Cobleskill -- will be awarded a total of $6 million in prizes on Thursday.

Two H1N1 vaccine clinics held in the Tri-Lakes area have gone smoothly, distributing almost 1,000 inoculations to date to young people.

Counselors will be on hand today for students in the Rush-Henrietta Central School District following the weekend deaths of a current student and a recent graduate.

Less than a day after Tuesday's election for the 23rd Congressional District, the fallout is smoldering hot.

HILLSBORO,A Mo. It started with two municipalities in neighboring Franklin County, and now Jefferson County, located just outside St.

A 19-year-old Pittsford resident was killed Friday in a head-on accident in Franklin County.

A Paul Smith's College student was killed and two others suffered serious injuries Friday in a two-car head-on collision.

Depending on the availability of the H1N1 vaccine, clinics are tentatively set for: Nov.

It was 2002, cranberry prices had tanked and Oswego Cranberry Co. and its 27 local investors didn't have enough money to pay its bills.