By CRAIG FREILICH

POTSDAM – If village government is dissolved by voters Nov. 8, the town council will have four general options for maintaining the safety and lawfulness of citizens who live, work, study, shop or pass through here.

The village’s Dissolution Study Committee described the four options:

• Completely disbanding what is now the village police department, a choice Police Chief Ed Tischler says would result in “chaos.”

CANTON -- Options for careers in health care have expanded for graduates of St. Lawrence University, with the announcement of an agreement with the graduate physician assistant program at Clarkson University.

Space will be made available for two qualified St. Lawrence graduates in each cohort of the Clarkson program, which leads to the master of science degree in physician assistant studies in 28 months.

POTSDAM – Cinema 10 continues its Fall 2011 season Monday, Oct. 3 with a showing of The Tree of Life, a 2011 US film by legendary director Terrence Malick.

Films are shown on Mondays at 7:15 p.m. in the Roxy Theater, Main St.

Tickets are $4.50 general / $35 season or $3.50 student/senior/$25 season.

CANTON - Andrew Rotter, Dana Professor of History at Colgate University, will give a talk titled "Narratives of Bombing: Tokyo and Hiroshima, 1945" Monday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall (Room 218) at St. Lawrence University.

The event is open to the public, free of charge.

Author of Hiroshima: The World's Bomb (2008), Comrades at Odds: Culture and Indo-U.S. Relations, 1947-1964 (2000), The Path to Vietnam (1987) and numerous articles and reviews, Rotter is former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

POTSDAM – A Watertown man was arrested for assault early this morning after allegedly breaking a window and slapping a bar employee in the face, according to village police.

Alonzo King, 36, was charged with third degree assault and fourth degree criminal mischief at 2:29 a.m. at LaCasbah, 6 Elm St.

Police said he broke a window at the bar by punching it, and when an employee attempted to get King to stop, he struck the employee in the face, causing injury.

CANTON -- SUNY Canton scored four straight goals in the second period to pull away to an 8-1 win over Lebanon Valley College Saturday in an ACHA Division I men’s ice hockey game.

The score held at 0-0 after the first period despite an onslaught of shots by the Roos (2-0) who fired 21 shots on goal in the first 20 minutes but could not slip one past Lebanon Valley’s goalie Colin Catherman.