Monica Sandreczki

North Country

Host and News Reporter at North Country Public Radio (NCPR)

Co-Host at Northern Light

Host / Reporter / Producer at North Country Public Radio

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Potsdam leans in to Pride

2 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki

Small communities in the North Country are leaning in to Pride Month in the face of backlash on the national stage, particularly against the trans community. Watertown Pride is urging people to come out in numbers to their June 21 pride flag raising ceremony. "Bring two friends. Let's double, triple the crowd that we've had in the past.
Elizabethtown concert celebrates the "oddball" combo of clarinet & sax

2 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki

Piano by Nature is wrapping up its 2024-2025 season with a concert by husband-and-wife woodwind duo from right here in the Adirondacks. Todd Pray, saxophone, and Janine Sherline, clarinet are doing to shows of "The Need for Reed" in Elizabethtown, accompanied by Rose Chancler and Jenn Moore on piano. Sherline and Moore spoke with Northern Light co-host Monica Sandreczki. Monica SandreczkiElizabethtown concert celebrates the "oddball" combo of clarinet & sax
Curtiss Hemm serves up a fried onion burger to please most any dad this Father's Day

3 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki |Catherine Wheeler

We’re serving up a dish to please most any dad for Father’s Day: fried onion burgers. It’s an Oklahoman classic, and Curtiss Hemm says it's easy to put your own spin on it. Hemm is the executive chef at the View restaurant at the Mirror Lake Inn in Lake Placid and the founder of the Carriage House Cooking School in Peru, outside of Plattsburgh.
Parishville families push for community at "Arts in the Park" event this weekend

4 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki

Folks in Parishville are throwing an end-of-school bash this weekend and everyone is welcome!"Arts in the Park" is more than an arts festival to the kids, parents and teachers organizing it, though. It's their latest effort to try to meet the needs of every family in the Parishville-Hopkinton school district. They’re using the proceeds to pay for all the school supplies for every kid in the district next year. "Parishville feels like a family. Families take care of each other.
How North Country farmers get young animals, plants off to a healthy start

1 month ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Kitty O'Neil |Monica Sandreczki |Catherine Wheeler

North Country farmers are starting new plants and birthing new calves, lambs and kids. "It's one of the busiest times on a livestock farm and everyone can be run ragged, but it's also a pretty wonderful and happy time, too," said Kitty O'Neil, agricultural climate resiliency specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension. "It's hard not to smile and laugh watching goat kids romp around a pasture or piglets race around a pen playing with each other.
Lean in to hear from the North Country's growing artists and writers

1 month ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki

For Katelyn Foley, viewing the artwork and reading original writing by young Adirondackers is essential as we think together about the future we want for the North Country. "It's an important opportunity to talk about what's happening right now, and what these students are expressing and thinking right now," said Foley, curator of education and engagement at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. "What are we aspiring to be?
How a tenacious bit of ice inspired this Sackets Harbor poet

1 month ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki

May in the North Country is a time of transitions - students are graduating; the snow is mostly melted, trees are budding; baby calves and lambs are being born. Laurinda Lind, of Sackets Harbor, shared a poem with NCPR that fits this time of year. Lind is an internationally recognized poet. She is the 2018 first-place winner of the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize, and the 2023 Foley Poetry Winner from America Magazine.
Egg-cellent jokes and a recipe to liven up your Mother's Day brunch

1 month ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki |Catherine Wheeler

Les Oeufs Mayonnaise, or Eggs Mayonnaise, would be a great dish for a French person who can never have just one egg. Why? Because one egg is never un oeuf. Ba Dum Tss!Curtiss Hemm shared a list of egg-themed dad jokes along with this simple recipe with Northern Light co-hosts Monica Sandreczki and Catherine Wheeler. Hemm is the executive chef at the View at the Mirror Lake Inn in Lake Placid and the founder of the Carriage House Cooking School in Peru, outside of Plattsburgh.
NCPR listener shares a poem to thank an old family friend

1 month ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Monica Sandreczki

How do you let the people you care about know they’re important to you? Oscar Sarmiento, of Potsdam, wrote a poem for an old family friend and shared it with NCPR. Sarmiento talked with Northern Light co-host Monica Sandreczki about his poem, "Sisters," which he wrote on a trip back home to Chile. The transcript of their conversation has been edited for clarity.
Rt. 56 reopens after nearly two months of construction

1 month ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Catherine Wheeler |Monica Sandreczki

The New York State Department of Transportation reopened Route 56 between Colton and Tupper Lake on Tuesday evening. The DOT had shut it down in early March after a sinkhole opened up on the road. The culvert at the Raquette River Tributary had failed. It was nearly 100 years old. Construction crews have installed a new and larger concrete box culvert and reconstructed the road.