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Federal agents have taken control of a North Country culinary staple.

Oral "Nick" Hillary’s civil lawsuit against the village of Potsdam and its police department has been postponed yet again. The former North Country soccer coach claims the police violated his civil rights when he was questioned in connection with the murder of Garrett Phillips in 2011. Judge Gary Sharpe of the U.S. Northern District granted a stay Thursday, ruling the case is overlapping with a new lawsuit Hillary has filed. The next steps in the process could take years.

Before cellphones, before dial-up, if you wanted to make a phone call, you talked to an operator. That operator sat in front of a wall covered in hundreds of little holes representing different lines. As calls came in, they plugged cords in and out of the switchboard, up to a dozen at a time.

It has finally warmed-up and mostly dried out. Some trails, especially in low-laying and un-drained areas, remain wet and muddy, but in general trails have dried and the DEC Mud Season Advisory has been lifted.

A member of Congress who represents part of the North Country says she received a death threat after this week’s shooting in Washington DC. Republican Claudia Tenney, whose district includes Booneville and a chunk of the Adirondack Park says the threat came just hours after the shooting.

Lake sturgeon are the ancient giants of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. They’ve been around since the dinosaurs. They can grow up to seven feet long. And they can live as long as humans, or longer.But overfishing and pollution have pushed them to the brink of extinction.Biologists are carefully orchestrating the sturgeon’s revival, with the help of one of the world’s most valuable caviars, some clay, and a few turkey feathers.

A family friendly comedy musical with witches, pirates, pixies and fairies opens at Ogdensburg Free Academy's auditorium this weekend. St. John's Conservatory Theater's "Orchard of Hide and Seek" is the group's tenth production.

Red squirrels do well in an abundant year for spruce and balsam cones, eating as many as fifty a day. Introduced to Newfoundland for the first time in the 1960s, squirrels eat as much as two-thirds of all the black spruce cones produced. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley talk about the eating habits of squirrels and their impact on the environment.

North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik described yesterday's shooting as "horrific." She attended a bipartisan prayer gathering that followed the violence in Washington.

A faction of breakaway Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference has been in the news lately for receiving stipend payments for chairing committees that the Senators in fact did not chair. Here’s a look at the history of this power-brokering group of senators and what may be in store for its future.