Episodes

  • Early intervention rate decrease, Albany preview, Jimmy Carter photographer

    Early intervention rate decrease, Albany preview, Jimmy Carter photographer
    Jan 9 2025
    (Jan 9, 2025) A long-awaited 5% pay increase for early intervention providers in New York state has been clouded by a decrease in what they get paid for services delivered by telehealth; as state lawmakers return to Albany this week, Democrats say they're focused on affordability, but Republicans question whether their policies will line up with those goals; and a conversation with a Lake Placid native who traveled to former President Jimmy Carter's hometown before his inauguration to bear witness to history.
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    30 mins
  • Betsy Folwell remembrance, Trudeau's resignation, Climate change superfund act

    Betsy Folwell remembrance, Trudeau's resignation, Climate change superfund act
    Jan 8 2025
    (Jan 8, 2025) We remember Betsy Folwell, longtime editor of Adirondack Life Magazine, who died on Sunday at her home in Blue Mountain Lake; a conversation about what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's resignation means for Canada and its relationship with the United States; and a new state law that promises to make oil and gas companies pay for part of the harm caused by climate change is expected to face legal challenges.
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    29 mins
  • Betsy Folwell conversation, farmer suicide prevention, caregiver support group

    Betsy Folwell conversation, farmer suicide prevention, caregiver support group
    Jan 7 2025
    (Jan 7, 2025) We look back at a conversation between former NCPR reporter Brian Mann and longtime Adirondack Life magazine editor Betsy Folwell from 2009 after Folwell died over the weekend; an online course through Cornell wants to make having conversations about rural mental health easier; and a caregiver support group in St. Lawrence County meets once a month to discuss the challenges of caring for a loved one.
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    29 mins
  • Billy Jones out of NY21 running, short-term rental law, diversity in hunting

    Billy Jones out of NY21 running, short-term rental law, diversity in hunting
    Jan 6 2025
    (Jan 6, 2025)
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    30 mins
  • Plattsburgh's new mayor, Sugar House hay stacking, NY cannabis sales, military gender care, Canadian border crossings

    Plattsburgh's new mayor, Sugar House hay stacking, NY cannabis sales, military gender care, Canadian border crossings
    Jan 3 2025
    (Jan 3, 2025) The City of Plattsburgh's new mayor was sworn in yesterday; stacking the last hay of the season in the Adirondacks; New York's cannabis sales reached a milestone of $1 billion dollars recently; a provision in the Pentagon budget bill cuts off gender-affirming health care for military dependents under 18; and, we revisit a story about illegal crossings from Canada.
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    31 mins
  • Seaway tugboat retirement, Boonville dairy farmer, DEC sign shop

    Seaway tugboat retirement, Boonville dairy farmer, DEC sign shop
    Jan 2 2025
    (Jan 2, 2025) A tugboat that's served the St. Lawrence Seaway since its inception is finding a second life as a training vessel; in today's North Country at Work story, we hear from a Boonville dairy farmer who says morning milking is like therapy and a free workout at the same time; and we re-visit the DEC sign shop in Northville where all of the state campground and Adirondack Park welcome signs are made.
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    29 mins
  • Glens Falls student absenteeism, Utica inmate death, Hermon-DeKalb eclipse lookback

    Glens Falls student absenteeism, Utica inmate death, Hermon-DeKalb eclipse lookback
    Dec 30 2024
    (Dec 30, 2024) We dive into how the Glens Falls City School District has bucked the "chronic absenteeism" trend and gotten kids back into school; the state attorney general's office released body camera footage last week of prison guards fatally beating an inmate at a prison in Utica; and we listen back to how a group of students at Hermon-DeKalb Central School experienced last April's total solar eclipse.
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    30 mins
  • Champlain village wind phone, Saranac Lake printing press, Reachout shutting down, Seaway administrator steps down, ice skating

    Champlain village wind phone, Saranac Lake printing press, Reachout shutting down, Seaway administrator steps down, ice skating
    Dec 27 2024
    (Dec 27, 2024) A new tool to help folks deal with loss in northern Clinton County; a local newspaper press keeps printing; Reachout, the crisis and intervention hotline based in Potsdam, is shutting down at the end of the year; St. Lawrence Seaway administrator is stepping down in January as the Trump administration takes office; and, ice skating in the Adirondacks!
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    31 mins