TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE—I-98--VIEWED AS KEY TO ECONOMIC FUTURE IN ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY—The County Legislature Economic Enhancement Sub-Committee agreed Wednesday the county can offer all the economic incentives it wants—low-cost power, tax breaks, and the like; but without a four-lane, east-west interstate highway—a way to get goods in and out of the county—there will be no “transformational change” .

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AUTOPSY TO BE PERFORMED AT CANTON-POTSDAM HOSPITAL TODAY ON THE BODY OF 25-YEAR-OLD BRAD EGGSWARE OF TUPPER LAKE, FOUND DEAD IN A STOLEN CAR IN A MALONE PARKING LOT THURSDAY. POLICE BELIEVE DRUGS ARE A FACTOR

THURSDAY EVENING BB-GUN SHOOTING SPREE IN THE WOODLAWN AVENUE, MASSENA NEIGHBORHOOD RESULTED IN EIGHT TOTAL MISDEMEANOR CHARGES FOR 17-YEAR-OLD TYLER PROVOST AND 18-YEAR-OLD RICHARD SCHWARTFIGURE. BOTH TEENS RELEASED ON COURT TICKETS. POLICE SAY THE TEENS ALLEGEDLY SHOT OUT SEVERAL WINDOWS

FIRE DESTROYS GARAGE AT 9626 STATE ROUTE 37 IN LISBON THIS MORNING, CAUSE TO BE INVESTIGATED

MADRID WOMAN ACCUSED OF PASSING FIVE BAD CHECKS AT WAYNE'S GAS, 58-YEAR-OLD MARY BROTHERS ARRESTED THURSDAY ON MISDEMEANORS AND RELEASED ON COURT TICKETS

RETIRED OGDENSBURG CITY FIRE CAPTAIN JEFF THORNTON HONORED WITH STATE “LIBERTY MEDAL” MONDAY FOR BRAVERY IN SAVING THREE PEOPLE FROM A BURNING ADAMS STREET HOUSE NOVEMBER 12TH. MEDAL PRESENTED BY SENATOR PATTY RITCHIE

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Donna Sackett Brothers Dihrberg—66--former Potsdam resident of Brooksville, FL. Memorial Service 11am Saturday at Crary Mills Presbyterian Church