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Now that Preet Bharara is no longer the U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York, some in Albany wonder who will investigate potential corruption now. Bharara’s office engineered the successful prosecutions of both major party legislative leaders. Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos face long prison sentences for corruption. [full story]

The St. Regis Mohawk tribe has started a company to offer high speed internet to all residences on its territory. Now Mohawk Networks is expanding to provide broadband to other under served communities in northern New York. [full story]

Snowmobiling is a popular sport on New Hampshire’s Lake Potanipo. Riders like the wide open spaces. It isn’t unusual to see them set up makeshift roads and racetracks and zoom around the ice. [full story]

Happy Spring! The warmer sun of March wakes up the trees and brings birds north. It also wakes up the bugs that live inside your house. Box elder bugs, lady bugs and cluster flies are three common ones. They're all a nuisance, but harmless. Cooperative Extension's Amy Ivy has more on these mostly unwelcome visitors, and what to do, and not do, to deal with them. [full story]

New York Senator Charles Schumer, who is also the Senate Minority Leader, says President Trump’s spending plan cuts too much in important areas — including education, the environment and programs for seniors. [full story]

North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik says she doesn’t support President Trump’s budget proposals issued yesterday. In a statement, Stefanik said savings are possible in the federal bureaucracy. But she said the deep reductions outlined by the White House would “cut many important individual programs to our district.” [full story]

Tensions between opposing groups of Democrats in the Senate reached a flash point this week over whose faction would be allowed to present their budget priorities for a floor debate, in an exchange that included some racially charged name calling. [full story]

There are uses for one of New York's most iconic trees other than maple syrup production. Using a lathe and a few gouges, a St. Lawrence County man turns maple stumps into functional objects, like bowls and decorative pieces that look like glass.Jan Close, who lives in the woods near Winthrop, NY, said he has played with wood since he was a child in his father's cabinetry shop. Close was recently awarded First Place for his tiger stripe salad bowl at a woodworkers gathering in Saratoga Springs. Todd Moe stopped by his wood shop to watch the process from hunk of wood to art. [full story]

Some people in Malone are still waiting for relief from flooding that developed at the height of the blizzard Tuesday night. The Salmon River is pouring around an ice jam, turning two village streets into canals. Ricky Provost heads the Franklin County Office of Emergency Services. [full story]

A commercial wind farm that’s been on the back burner in St. Lawrence County appears to be moving forward. This month, residents of Hopkinton and Parishville got their first look at a mockup of the North Ridge Wind Farm. [full story]