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Akwesasne’s Artistic Heritage Shines at Juried Art Show
The Saint Regis Mohawk Nation celebrated the talents & creativity of Akwesasne artisans this summer with a daylong show that featured native music, food, demonstrations and handcrafted artwork. Jack LaDuke shows us.
NY Speaker Heastie Commits $3 Million to New Franklin County Sports Facility for Kids
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie comes to the North Country to give a huge boost, $3-million dollars in state funding, to a proposed project that will build a new indoor rec center for kids in Malone & Franklin County. The facility that would be built a short ways from the Malone Recreation Park would have an…
Quebec Premier and NY Governor Break Ground on Champlain Hudson Power Project
Quebec’s Premier, Francois Legault, visited New York City this week for the groundbreaking of a power converter station in Queens that will convert hydropower arriving from Quebec via a 339-mile transmission line that will run along the bottom of Lake Champlain and the Hudson River. The 6-billion-dollar project will supply Metropolitan New York with enough…
This Week on Mountain Lake Journal – September 22, 2023
This week: New York assembly speaker Carl Heastie comes to the North Country to give a huge boost to a project to build a new Rec Center and swimming pool for kids in Malone and Franklin County. And why dams are being removed from the Saranac River, and how biologists and fishermen hope it will…
New Film to be Shot in Port Henry
An independent filmmaker who grew up here in the North Country is coming back home this fall to shoot a new movie. Lori Bailey filmed her last movie, on serial killer Robert Garrow in Essex County 5 years ago, and before that she filmed the movie “Mineville” that was released back in 2010. This fall…
9/11 Memorial at SUNY Plattsburgh
SUNY Plattsburgh held its yearly ceremony this week to honor the nearly 3-thousand victims of the September 11th attacks 22 years ago. The Omicron Delta Kappa national honor society holds the ceremony near Hawkins Pond on the Plattsburgh State campus where there is a memorial dedicated to Robert Sutcliffe and William Erwin, two Plattsburgh State…
SBA Loans Available to NY Counties
The U.S. Small Business Administration is getting the word out that businesses & non-profits in 3 New York Counties may be able to get for low-interest disaster loans. Clinton, Essex & Washington Counties are eligible because they are adjacent to Vermont, which was declared a federal disaster area by President Biden after the severe flooding…
25th Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration Parade
The U.S. Navy Band joins the 25th anniversary commemoration of the historic naval battle on Lake Champlain that brought the War of 1812 to an end. The 25th Annual Battle of Plattsburgh Commemoration drew a large crowd for this year’s parade that is always one of the most popular events of the weekend that commemorates…
Assemblyman Billy Jones Talks Airline, Amtrak, Migrant Crisis, and COVID
North Country Assemblyman Billy Jones joined us to talk about the new low-cost airline coming to Plattsburgh International Airport, the return of the Amtrak Adirondack Line, the on-going migrant crisis in New York City, and an uptick in COVID cases.
Holocaust Survivor Vladimir Munk Honored by NYS Department of Education
Retired SUNY Plattsburgh Professor & Holocaust Survivor Vladimir Munk received a special honor this week from the New York State Education Department for the many years he has spent teaching & sharing his story of how he survived the Nazi concentration camps during World War 2. The Board of Regents this week honored Dr. Munk…