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By NCPR: North Country Public Radio
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We depend on dry, bare roads to get around safely during the winter. But all that road salt corrodes the environment. One town near Lake George is trying to curb the addiction to road salt. Also: The omicron-driven COVID spike is starting to flatten in New York City, but Gov. Hochul predicts it'll be another couple weeks of soaring COVID-19 cases Upstate.

The omicron variant drives new COVID-19 case records across the North Country, but businesses, schools, and most workplaces remain open. Across the border, Quebec and the city of Montreal have returned back to a near-total lockdown, including a curfew. Also: Gov. Kathy Hochul will lay out how she plans to pay for her election-year agenda in her budget, which is due next week.

School districts are starting to send students home with COVID-19 test kits to help find positive cases before a child infects the rest of the school. But educators are teetering on the edge as they try to fill what's essentially a public health role. Also: St. Lawrence County wants to send more deputies into schools as resource officers.

Congress came close to passing legislation requiring women to register for the selective service, the precursor to a military draft. Supporters of gender-neutral registration say they'll keep trying. Also: Gov. Hochul says the state is prepared to send out 37 million COVID-19 test kits to help keep kids in school unless they test positive.

Rep. Elise Stefanik said she couldn't vote in person due to pandemic-related health concerns. So someone voted as her proxy on the same day she was in a full room in Mar-a-Lago. Also: The APA's executive director is stepping down after a dozen years at the helm.
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