POTSDAM -- The C.O.R.C. Thrift Store, 8 Willow St., is holding a spring bag sale from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 31, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday June 1.

The store will close at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday to get ready for the sale before it reopens at 5.

All bags are $3 plus sales tax.

New summer items will go out on Saturday June 2 at 11 a.m. For more information call the store at 265-3940.

HEUVELTON -- For the second time, a Heuvelton man has been accused of cashing in what he said were rolls of dimes but which turned out to be pennies.

This time, he was jailed in lieu of $1,000 cash bail, according to St. Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies.

Jon L. Larue, 21, 5701 County Rt. 10, was charged with petit larceny Sunday by St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s deputies for allegedly exchanging six dime rolls filled with pennies for $30 on May 15 from Tru North Pizza, 68 State St., Heuvelton.

An employee discovered the pennies several days later, deputies said.

By CRAIG FREILICH

The Raquette River is a lazy stream this spring compared to last year’s record-setting torrent, which rushed downriver at triple the flow that would normally be expected.

After a fairly dry winter and early runoff in a warm spell in March, water levels this spring at times have been less than half of what we might see.

OGDENSBURG -- Todd Mashaw, of St. Lawrence Federal Credit Union recently presented Lee Jones, co-chairman of the Ogdensburg Chamber of Commerce’s Car-B-Que Committee, with a check to sponsor the Lady’s Choice Trophy.

The trophy will be presented at their annual car show and bar-b-que scheduled for June 2 on the lawn of the city marina.

NORWOOD -- The Norwood Village Green Concert Series 39th annual season opens Thursday, May 31 with the St. Lawrence County Pop Choral Stage Band Festival from 4 to 9 p.m.

Thirteen school groups from Potsdam, Norwood-Norfolk, Colton-Pierrepont, Hermon-DeKalb, Lisbon, Canton and Madrid-Waddington school districts will perform.

CANTON -- Tom Van de Water will lead the second of TAUNY’s Green Walks on Thursday, May 31, at 4 p.m. on Canton’s Falls Island.

The walk will begin at the information kiosk near the Falls Island parking lot (located between the Grasse River bridges on West Main Street).

Since the statewide spring ban on residential brush burning in smaller communities went into effect in 2010, there has been a 60 percent reduction in wildfires.

The figure was calculated by the state Department of Environmental Conservation since this year's ban ended May 15.

Wildfire reports submitted by DEC's Forest Rangers show that 20 percent (13 of 65 fires) that occurred during this year's spring wildfires in upstate New York were caused by people burning debris. This is down 51 percent from yearly figures from 2000 through 2009, before the burning ban took effect.

CANTON -- A photographic history of the St. Lawrence University campus is now in digital form, available through a collaboration of the Special Collections staff of the library and a Digital Collections team.

The collection tells the story of the development of the campus from the construction of what was simply known as “the College” in 1856 (renamed Richardson Hall in 1906) to the modern campus of today, using over 100 vintage photos of individual buildings, panoramas of the early campus and many aerial views from the University’s Archives.

OGDENSBURG -- The Ogdensburg Free Academy Key Club’s annual spring Talent Show will feature 15 of St. Lawrence and Franklin County’s most talented singers and dancers on Thursday, May 31.

The show begins at 7 p.m. at Ogdensburg Free Academy. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students.

The show will feature students from six area high schools, including Salmon River, Potsdam, Madrid-Waddington, Heuvelton, Massena and Ogdensburg.