St. Lawrence University senior Nordic skier Caroline Carpenter opened the 2012 EISA Championships in style on Friday afternoon, posting a career-best fifth place finish in the women's 5k Freestyle race to lead the Saints in Middlebury, VT.

St. Lawrence University first-year alpine skier Allison Visconti earned her first collegiate top-10 finish on Friday, as the Saints competed in the slalom at the 2012 EISA Championships in Middlebury, VT. Visconti and sophomore Ben DeFlavio led both the men's and women's teams to seventh place in the team standings.

St. Lawrence University's women's squash team advanced to the Epps Cup semifinals on Saturday with a 5-4 win over Boston College in a first round match at the College Squash Association women's team nationals at Harvard on Friday morning.

Harvard University sophomore goaltender Raphael Girard shut down St. Lawrence's offense and the Crimson picked up an insurance goal early in the third period en route a 4-1 win over the Saints in a game which sets up a big final night of the regular season for both teams.

Despite a strong second-period showing and a late rally in the third, the Clarkson University Hockey team could not overcome a slow start and fell to Dartmouth 6-4 in ECAC Hockey action at Thompson Arena in Hanover, NH on Friday night.

The State Police Troop B Gun Investigation Unit reports that 44 guns were stolen in St. Lawrence County in 2011, and five were recovered.

For the second year in a row, St. Lawrence County leads the list with the most guns stolen in the five-county Troop B area, which also includes Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Hamilton counties.

This was actually a significant decrease from 2010. In 2010, 63 were reported stolen in the county, and nearly half that many –31 -- were recovered.

OGDENSBURG -- The Society of the United Helpers is accepting applications for the Helen S. Randles Scholarships.

These scholarships are made possible through an endowment established by Helen S. Randles, who served the United Helpers organization for 45 years.

Scholarships are available to any high school senior in St. Lawrence County who desires to train in the health care field. The professions that will be considered this year are nursing, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, dieticians, and clinical psychology.

LAKE PLACID – The FIBT Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships continues through Feb. 26.

POTSDAM – Artist Renee Holsen will offer six hours of instruction for beginning basket weavers through the St. Lawrence County Arts Council.

Using a basic “over-under” weave pattern, students will make a typical utilitarian basket known as a market basket.

Weaving with flat and flat oval reeds, students will determine the size of basket and learn how to weave color into a basket.