LOCAL SUNY COLLEGE FISCAL WOES FORECASTED—A preliminary model for 2013 shown to SUNY Potsdam Trustees Friday indicates the comprehensive and technical campuses—Potsdam and Canton included—will see serious fiscal hits next year. Natalie Higley, shared Chief Financial Officer for both campuses told us the model is based on enrollment, geographic location, and a research component—which is hurting campuses the most. Higley says the research component is based on Federal awards to campuses, not state dollars. She says comprehensive and technical campuses have their research components funded mostly by the state, so that will be the source of the biggest hit. Higley says the Canton campus will be hurt less than Potsdam because its enrollment is up.

CLARKSON PRESIDENT HINTS AT “SEVEN-FIGURE” FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT TO COME SOON—Dr. Tony Collins told the audience gathered for the keynote address at the annual “Forever Wired” conference on the campus Friday the Shipley Foundation—best known to the Clarkson community for its gift many years ago that funds a lecture series drawing Nobel Prize winners—will be endowing Clarkson with funds that will allow entrepreneurs supported by Clarkson to pitch their products to major venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Collins says about “Forever Wired”--the conference focusing on the growth of broadband and the development it generates—that progress in covering the North Country with broadband has been so great the conference will no longer be held on the campus, but in the Adirondacks where the effort is focused.

MASSENA MAN STEALS MOTHER'S CAR, CRASHES IT TWICE, ARRESTED AND JAILED—Village Police say 20-year-old Kenneth Laughlin was charged with a felony count of grand larceny and many other counts after the Friday night incident, that sent Massena Fire Department to Barnhart Road after the car was left smoking from striking shrubs, then a tree. Laughlin was arraigned and jailed on 2000 cash bail or 4000 bail bond.

ROLLOVER CRASH IN PIERREPONT FRIDAY NIGHT CAUSES INJURY, NORWOOD MAN ARRESTED FOR DWI—Sheriff's Deputies charged 51-year-old Rian Hill on misdemeanor counts after he allegedly rolled a vehicle four times in County Route 24. Hill was transported by ambulance to Canton-Potsdam Hospital He was released on court tickets.

POTSDAM SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT PAT BRADY TOLD THE BOARD OF EDUCATION THIS WEEK BOCES IS WORKING ON A SHARED DRIVER EDUCATION PROGRAM, FINDING CERTIFIED TEACHERS AN ISSUE

WWNY-TV REPORTS POTSDAM HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL JOANNE CHAMBERS IS CONCERNED ABOUT DIRTY DANCING

KICK-OFF CELEBRATION FOR THE POTSDAM EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND TO BE HELD IN THE HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY 6-8PM OCTOBER 11TH; FUND STARTED BY 100-THOUSAND-DOLLAR PLEDGE BY A POTSDAM SCHOOL ALUMNI COUPLE

CAREER SERVICES SURVEY SAYS 95 PERCENT OF MAY, 2011 SLU GRADUATES ARE EITHER WORKING OR IN GRADUATE SCHOOL—FIRST INCREASE IN FIVE YEARS.

OBITUARIES:

Irene Patterson—84—Canton. Services 1pm Tuesday at O' Leary Funeral Home, US Highway 11 Canton. Calling hours Monday from 5-8pm.