We asked our Piecing it Together texting club how they find entertainment and recreation here in the North Country.

The Norwood Village Green begins its 46th annual season this Thursday afternoon with some of St. Lawrence County's finest high school vocal and jazz ensembles. The summer music series is the oldest continuous outdoor event of its kind in the North Country.

State officials are making it even harder for hikers and campers to park near some of the Adirondack Park’s most popular trailheads. Restrictions announced yesterday affect a four-mile stretch of Rt. 73 in the Essex County town of Keene.

The New York State legislature held as marathon day-long hearing on a proposal to enact single-payer health care in New York. A packed hearing room listened as supporters and opponents debated whether it’s the answer to the state’s health care gaps.

New commissioners with the International Joint Commission were in Greece, NY on Tuesday to visit flooding sites on the southern shore of Lake Ontario.

Finding jobs in the North Country is always an issue. But with unemployment at near-record lows, it’s employers who are struggling these days, looking for people to hire. A new work placement program is trying to match graduating seniors with Plattsburgh’s factories and help find the workforce of the future.

It's called RAMP, which stands for Ready, Able, Marketable, Proven. Ideally, a RAMP participant is all these things at the end of a year of work experiences in entry-level factory work.

The LeClair brothers claim they got the first TV in Churubusco in the 1950s. At first there was only one channel, and it broadcasted in French from Montreal.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced last week that toxic chemicals will be removed from the former Waste Stream, Inc. site in a year-long process.

A national report finds that New York State’s ethics panel is among the worst in the nation. Reform groups say that’s not news to them, and have called for an overhaul of the commission.

SUNY Canton is hoping to double the number of students enrolled in its new mechatonics engineering program this fall. Mechatronics is a combination of mechanical engineering and electronics, and also includes computer science. Robotics and automated systems, like those used in the auto industry, are examples of mechatronic systems.