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The Dannemora escape was the stuff of movies and more

DANNEMORA — From the beginning, the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility by David Sweat and Richard Matt has been described “like something out of a movie.” The story was ripe for moviemakers and their documentaries as well as for fictional versions of the story. The escape, ...

Welcome to kitten season

NEW YORK — Strawberry, Blueberry, JoJo and Mazzy were about 6 weeks old when animal rescuers coaxed them out of long metal pipes in the parking lot of a storage unit company. Meatball was a single kitten living in a cold garage with a group of semi-feral adult cats. Spaghetti, Macaroni and ...

100 dairy farms in New York get over $21 million from state

LOWVILLE — New York state is pushing more than $21 million in grant money out to over 100 dairy farms statewide, part of a long-term push to enhance and expand the state’s upstate milk and milk product industry. On Monday at Glory Days dairy farm in Lowville, state Agriculture ...

Record fish caught in Black River Bay

ALBANY — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced the first state record fish of the year. On May 3, while shorefishing with his son, Dylan Kampnich of Dexter reeled in a 37-pound 9-ounce channel catfish from Black River Bay in Jefferson County. Mr. Kampnich’s ...