Episodes

  • Great Meadow closure, Plattsburgh investigation vote, "Miracle" screening, Potsdam fiddler

    Great Meadow closure, Plattsburgh investigation vote, "Miracle" screening, Potsdam fiddler
    Nov 7 2024
    (Nov 7, 2024) Local business owners and union leaders are worried about how the closure of Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Washington County will impact the economy and the prison's former employees; the City of Plattsburgh Common Council is set to vote tonight on whether to launch an investigation into claims of wrongdoing by city police and the mayor's office; we preview a screening of the film "Miracle," a Disney movie about the 1980 Olympic hockey team who defeated the Soviet Union and went on to win gold, at the Lake Placid Film Festival; and we listen back to a story on Gretchen Koehler, a Potsdam-based traditional fiddler who composed a series of fiddle tunes inspired by folk artists in the region. The album release party for her and pianist Daniel Kelly's "Fiddling with Traditions" will take place tonight at the Remington Museum in Ogdensburg.
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    30 mins
  • Stefanik wins re-election, Plattsburgh selects new mayor, voter reactions, Chef Curtiss

    Stefanik wins re-election, Plattsburgh selects new mayor, voter reactions, Chef Curtiss
    Nov 6 2024
    (Nov 6, 2024) North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik won her sixth term in Congress in a landslide victory over Democrat Paula Collins; voters in Plattsburgh elected Democrat Wendell Hughes, a Clinton County legislator and retired corrections captain, as their next mayor; we hear from voters around the North Country who cast their votes Tuesday; and Chef Curtiss Hemm shares a recipe for venison Salisbury steak.
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    31 mins
  • Poll worker preparations, veteran politics program, ADK movement artist

    Poll worker preparations, veteran politics program, ADK movement artist
    Nov 5 2024
    (Nov 5, 2024) Local election officials and poll workers are critical to our nation’s democracy, yet those workers have been the targets of increasing harassment and abuse nationwide; a program in Syracuse is training veterans and their spouses to run for public office and hopefully bring their service-to-country mission to a divisive political system; and a movement artist talks about feeling and fixing pre-performance nerves.
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    30 mins
  • NY House races, uncontested North Country seats, sound quiz returns

    NY House races, uncontested North Country seats, sound quiz returns
    Nov 4 2024
    (Nov 4, 2024)
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    30 mins
  • Adirondackers on Prop 1, CHIPS in Albany, Halloween parade

    Adirondackers on Prop 1, CHIPS in Albany, Halloween parade
    Nov 1 2024
    (Nov 1, 2024) North Country voters are divided over the candidates and over the state's lone ballot measure - Prop One; Albany has been tapped as the first location for the National Semiconductor Technology Center; Lake Placid students parade down main street in their Halloween costumes.
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    30 mins
  • North Country voters, NY-21 candidates, Elizabethtown concert preview

    North Country voters, NY-21 candidates, Elizabethtown concert preview
    Oct 31 2024
    (Oct 31, 2024) Ahead of Election Day next week, we take a look at very local races — like town justice, county judge, and town boards — and the more immediate impact they have on North Country residents' daily lives; Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik and her Democratic challenger Paula Collins kicked off the final week of their campaigns in very different venues; and we preview finger-picking guitarist Andy Cohen's concert in Elizabethtown this weekend.
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    30 mins
  • Watertown voter event, NY ballot prop, North Country farm roundup

    Watertown voter event, NY ballot prop, North Country farm roundup
    Oct 30 2024
    (Oct 30, 2024) An informational event in Watertown looks to get voters prepared for Election Day; New Yorkers will vote on a ballot measure that proponents say will “enshrine abortion” in the state’s constitution, but not all legal experts agree; and we speak with Kitty O'Neil from the Cornell Cooperative Extension about the impact of the first few frosts of fall on North Country farms.
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    30 mins
  • Early voting turnout, Ogdensburg flight to DC, steel sculpture artist

    Early voting turnout, Ogdensburg flight to DC, steel sculpture artist
    Oct 29 2024
    (Oct 29, 2024) More than 14,000 people in the North Country cast their ballots on the first 2 days of early voting; a federal program is ensuring that flight from Ogdensburg to Washington D.C. fly no matter what, even if almost no one is aboard; and a steel sculpture by an artist and Akwesasne Mohawk tribe member is now on display at a museum in the Adirondacks.
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    30 mins