“FISHCAP” EFFORTS SELL COUNTY LEGISLATORS ON CHAMBER—The St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce got a 10-percent funding cut, to 180-thousand-dollars for 2013. The County Legislature heard over an hour of comments this week from outside agencies; all stood to lose all their County allotments. Efforts to bring “BASSMASTERS” to Waddington next summer and a potential partnership with sporting goods giant Cabela's were pushed. The only other outside agencies that got most of their funding kept were the Historian and Soil and Water Conservation; they also got 10 percent cuts. All others got their 2013 funding eliminated—that includes a controversial elimination of library funds. The Legislature is dealing with a multi-million-dollar deficit for next year and a current draft tax hike in the range of about 15 percent.

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NO SERIOUS INJURIES, NO TICKETS FROM MILK TRUCK-SUV COLLISION ON ROUTE 11 IN STOCKHOLM—State Police in Massena say 35-year-old milk truck driver Gregory Rose of Carthage swerved to avoid another vehicle, the milk load shifted and caused the west-bound tanker to strike an oncoming SUV driven by 38-year-old Chico Newman of St. Charles, MO nearly head-on. Neither driver was seriously hurt; they were taken by Tri-Town Rescue to Canton-Potsdam Hospital.

ACTIVIST DONALD HASSIG TOLD 99 NEWS BEING EJECTED FROM CLARKSON UNIVERSITY AND THE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES COMPLEX ARE “WHAT I LIVE FOR”

OCTOBER MUCH WARMER, SLIGHTLY WETTER FOR POTSDAM ACCORDING TO RICK O'HANLON...AVERAGE TEMP OF 53.5 DEGREES WAS OVER 7 DEGREES ABOVE NORM. RAINFALL ABOUT A QUARTER-INCH ABOVE NORMAL

FRANKLIN COUNTY LEGISLATORS MULL OVER PROPOSED “BED TAX”

“I-D-S”, A CLARKSON STUDENT COMPANY WITH A SMART PHONE APP TO ORDER STADIUM CONCESSIONS FROM SEATS, WINS 20-THOUSAND-DOLLARS, FIRST PRIZE PROPS IN COLORADO COMPETITION