We've got a good thaw going on. Local officials will be watching local rivers in the region today and tomorrow, on the lookout for ice jams and isolated flooding as river ice breaks up and begins moving downstream.

Our Piecing It Together series is built on the idea that we talk a lot about the lack of jobs and opportunity in the North Country, and not as much on what we do have here, and how we use creativity and hard work to survive.

Deadly violence erupted yesterday on a rural road in the town of Ausable Forks in Clinton County. State police say David Bova, age 30, shot and killed a woman. He is now in custody. Magen Goyette, also age 30, was taken to the hospital in Plattsburgh where she was pronounced dead.

Horns and antlers are more than different variations on animal head gear. Antlers are temporary and contain no actual bone. Horns are for keeps. Martha Foley and Curt Stager discuss pointy-headed creatures.

Budget talks are intensifying in Albany as the deadline nears, and they are revealing tensions and divides between Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the all-Democratic State Legislature.

John and Nichole Wright are third generation dairy farmers in Dekalb Junction, in St. Lawrence Country. They raise calves with the help of their three daughters. That’s the work they love, but their side jobs as a salesman and a grocery store baker help pay the bills.

Liz Bawden grew up in the suburbs in Massachusetts, and as an adult became an interpretive naturalist - that’s the person that gives guided tours and gives programs at parks and nature centers. She worked all over North America, from Connecticut to Texas, and Toronto to Ontario.

Now she’s a dairy farmer, and has been since the late 1990s. She’s been on the boards of two big organic farming organizations - NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association) New York and NODPA (Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance), and spoken in Washington about the experiences of herself and others in her industry.

What if we didn’t change our clocks for Daylight Savings Time? And watching spring arrive in the night and morning skies - Venus and Jupiter at sunset; a waxing moon and Orion high and bright.

St. Lawrence University physicist Aileen O'Donoghue keeps an eye on the sky for North Country Public Radio.

With three weeks to go until the April 1 budget deadline, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is drawing some lines in the sand on items that he said must be in the spending plan, like a permanent property tax cap.