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1 week ago | 
northcountrynow.com | Adam Atkinson
POTSDAM - With recent bid approvals, Potsdam Central is moving forward on a capital project that will rehab its middle school main corridor restrooms and its high school art room at no cost to the taxpayers. School Superintendent Jerry Griffin told North Country This Week that the work in this latest capital project is rehab for the school that was not packaged with the last major school project.
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1 week ago | 
northcountrynow.com | Adam Atkinson
POTSDAM — The village is welcoming a new face, while saying goodbye to one of its longtime employees. The board of trustees, at its May 19th meeting, approved two new hires and accepted the retirement of longtime Village Planning and Development Director Fred Hanss. Hanss’ retirement will be effective June 13. The planning and development director has worked for 20 years for the village.
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1 week ago | 
chch.com | Adam Atkinson
After six months away, parliament will return tomorrow and will have a very special guest this week. Monday, a new speaker for the House of Commons will be elected, and then on Tuesday, King Charles the Third will deliver the throne speech.
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1 week ago | 
northcountrynow.com | Adam Atkinson
POTSDAM — An ongoing dispute between a couple pickleball players and a nonprofit club over how it manages the Potsdam “Pickleplex” courts at Sandstoner Park may lead the village to change how the courts are handled. A recent letter to the editor of North Country This Week by Kimberly and John LaShomb of Norfolk highlights their experience attempting to secure membership in the North Country Pickleball Club.
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2 weeks ago | 
chch.com | Adam Atkinson
There will be no replacing Hockey Hall of Famer Brendan Shanahan as the Toronto Maple Leaf’s president, as that will role will remain vacant. The head of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) announced Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours after Shanahan was let go. After a disappointing Game 7 loss to the Florida Panthers last week, we knew some changes were on the way in Maple Leaf land.
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2 weeks ago | 
northcountrynow.com | Adam Atkinson
POTSDAM – No Mow May in Potsdam may have gotten a little out of hand in Potsdam, says the village code enforcement officer. “The other condition that we're really facing a lot of right now. Last year at this time, we were deeply enthralled in No Mow May, where the village got behind not mowing the lawn, ” said Village Code Enforcement Officer Greg Thompson at the May 19th village board meeting.
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2 weeks ago | 
chch.com | Adam Atkinson
Hamilton’s own Shai Gilgeous-Alexander became the second Canadian to be awarded the National Basketball Association’s ‘Most Valuable Player’. Not since Steve Nash won back-to-back NBA MVP awards in 2005 and 2006 has a Canadian basketball player reached such heights, until the Oklahoma City Thunder point guard won the award Wednesday. A special ceremony was held Thursday at Gilgeous-Alexander’s old stomping grounds at Sir Allan Macnab Secondary School to celebrate his hard work.
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2 weeks ago | 
northcountrynow.com | Adam Atkinson
POTSDAM -- The village of Potsdam will be helping out the Amvets Post 282 this year with the community's annual Memorial Day celebration. "The village is assisting Amvets with the organization of the Memorial Day Parade and ceremony this year. We're helping out a little bit," said Potsdam Village Mayor Alexandra Jacobs Wilke at a special meeting of the village board on May 12.
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2 weeks ago | 
northcountrynow.com | Adam Atkinson
POTSDAM -- While Grievance Day is just around the corner on May 27 in Potsdam, a few town property owners again turned out at the town board meeting May 13 to protest their new property assessments. The town hired Clifton Park-based firm GAR Associates last year for $385,000 to do a town-wide revaluation of all assessed properties.
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2 weeks ago | 
northcountrynow.com | Adam Atkinson
POTSDAM -- The village board recently approved its amended code for sidewalk maintenance and snow clearing, with a goal that the change clarifies who is obligated to remove snow from village walkways, the property owner or the village. The amendment to Chapter 145 Streets and Sidewalks §145-5 Keeping sidewalks clean was approved by the mayor and trustees at its special meeting May 12. The village held a public hearing on the change to the sidewalk code in March.
