BY JEFF CHUDZINSKI
North Country This Week

MASSENA — Newly elected Town Supervisor Sue Bellor is ready to make positive changes in the town, with hopes of working across the aisle to do so.

Bellor won election in November after running opposed. She is the first woman to serve in the role of town supervisor in the history of Massena.

CANTON — Constellation, an Exelon Company, has awarded Clarkson University a $20,000 grant as part of their E² Energy to Educate grant program.

This fourth consecutive grant from Constellation will allow Clarkson to continue its current partnership with Canton Central School (CCS) and expand the educational programming to include a new group of Heuvelton Central (HCS) middle school students.

CANTON — St. Lawrence County recognized January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

It’s an issue that has been discussed at recent St. Lawrence County meetings where at least two women spoke about situations involving their daughters who had been victims of trafficking.

Legislators did not discuss specifics at the Operations Committee when they passed the resolution, which was brought forward by Committee Chair Rita Curran, R-Massena.

BLACK LAKE — Black Lake Fish and Game Club Ice Fishing Derby will be hosted by the Black Lake Fish & Game Association, Inc. on Saturday, Jan. 29 from 6:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

The event is the Fish and Game Club’s biggest fundraiser of the year.

Fishermen will vie for a chance at over $4,300 in cash prizes, $1500 in tagged pike and several thousand dollars worth of other prizes including a Lake Ontario fishing charter and a guided fishing trip on Black Lake and two kid lifetime hunting/fishing licenses.

St. Lawrence County Public Health reports another 244 new cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday, Jan. 18, marking over a week straight of daily cases exceeding 200 per day.

Public Health also reports another rise in hospitalizations from 26 to 31.

Total active cases remains well over 2,000 for the eighth day in a row.

Deaths and vaccination rates remain flat.

POTSDAM – Clarkson University's Physician Assistant Class of 2021 achieved a 100 percent pass rate on its Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination (PANCE). The class of 30 students all passed the exam on the first attempt.

The class of 2021 was the second class in the past several years to post a 100 percent success rate, with the class of 2018 also having accomplished the feat, a press release from the university said.

BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week

OGDENSBURG – An appellate court has denied St. Lawrence County’s request to stay an Ogdensburg local law, but granted the county’s motion for an expedited trial.

St. Lawrence County is appealing Judge Mary Farley’s dismissal of a lawsuit against the city of Ogdensburg which will be heard by the state Appellate Division Third Judicial Department in May.

OGDENSBURG – Afterschool movies will now be playing Wednesdays once a month at the Ogdensburg Public Library. The movies will be rated PG and below. January’s movie will be Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 3:30 p.m. about a family taking on dangerous machines.

Library hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Wednesdays 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.