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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-Willsboro) is pushing back against President Donald Trump's sudden announcement via tweet Wednesday morning to ban transgender people from serving in the military.

Another candidate has filed paperwork to run against Congresswoman Elise Stefanik in 2018 and this time, it's someone from Stefanik's own party.

After years of museum and exhibit design work with his wife, Kevan Moss, artist Stephen Horne says he's finally getting back to what he really loves - painting. He recently completed work on a new studio space at their woodsy home just north of Paul Smiths, and that's where you'll find him most days, if he's not out for a hike or swim in a nearby pond.

City officials in Ogdensburg have spent the last few years looking for a cheaper way to run their government. But after raising taxes and trying to trim the city payroll, those officials are out of ideas. Now, they're asking for some outside help.

The North Country's most infamous summer party is no more. The Lake George Park Commission voted yesterday to end the Log Bay Day gathering. The move followed a fatal boating accident last summer that left an 8-year-old girl dead.

The U.S. Senate is moving ahead on the repeal and possibly the replacement of the Affordable Care Act, and policy makers in New York are bracing for the worst.

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-Willsboro) is shepherding a package of bills in the House that would help military spouses when they transfer from base to base.

It's an intense week of rehearsals at Keene Central School for more than a dozen young actors, dancers and singers in The Book & Blanket Players Youth Theatre production of the musical "Trixie True, Teen Detective." Director Kathy Recchia says the theatre-in-a-week production has been dubbed the Ironman of summer musical theatre in the North Country, with young actors arriving on Monday and performing Saturday night after a solid week of rehearsals. The theatre troupe will give one performance of "Trixie True, Teen Detective" on Saturday night at 7 pm at Keene Central School. The show is appropriate for all ages and admission is free. And, as an added bonus this week, Mana Allen, who starred in the Off-Broadway production, stopped by a rehearsal to share her thoughts on the show. Todd Moe caught up by phone with Allen and director Kathy Recchia, who says the dual-plot musical is a whimsical spoof of the classic Nancy Drew mystery series.

One of the first women in the North Country to publicly support the right of women to vote will be honored Saturday at a ceremony in Richville, NY. Helen Hinsdale Rich, who was born in a log cabin near Oxbow, took up the cause of Woman's Suffrage in 1862. A historical marker in her honor will be placed in front of the Richville Public Library at 2 pm on Saturday.2017 is the centennial of woman's suffrage in New York State. Nineteen historic markers in 12 counties, to commemorate women gaining the right to vote in New York State, will be unveiled this weekend. Richville historian Lila Youngs says Helen Hinsdale Rich, and her husband Moses, raised their family in Richville, where Helen became well-known as a poet, and first took her stand for women's suffrage. She studied at St. Lawrence University before traveling around the country writing and speaking in favor of women's rights. She was a member of the National Woman's Suffrage Committee in the 1890s.Youngs, who has done extensive research on Helen Hinsdale Rich's career, says Rich died at her daughter's home in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1915 at the age of 87; five years before American women won the right to vote.Although she didn't attain the stature of Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Susan B. Anthony, Youngs says Helen Rich was an important pioneer North Country voice for women's rights.

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