It’s a competitive sport. Traditional. It requires hard work, determination, discipline, attentiveness, patience and the ability to anticipate. It’s grown in appreciation, not just in this country, but internationally. Fall is the time of final defea

On Wednesday, Oct. 16, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Franklin County will be offering a Maple Confections and Value Added Maple Products workshop in the Kitchen Conference Room at the Franklin County Courthouse in Malone. The workshop, which is of

Here it is, mid-September. The kids are back to school, leaves are changing color, the sun is setting earlier and rising later, pumpkins are in the field, spiders are everywhere and there’s a distinct nip to the late evening air. In fact, occasional

Imagine, if you will, that our next big energy resource find is the single most important energy find ever, and that it’s not in the oil fields of the Middle East, the former Soviet Union or Venezuela; that instead, it is discovered right here in the

North Country residents are certainly no strangers to harsh, dangerous, unpredictable weather. Hammering rains, hail, sleet, snowstorms, blizzards, flooding, prolonged periods of sub-zero temperatures, heat waves, drought; somehow we manage to take a