Green Party congressional candidate Donald Hassig of Colton says that Americans are not getting the information they need to make informed decisions about persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and other environmental threats in things such as the food supply and dental fillings.

To remedy the situation, Hassig endorses banning electoral campaign contributions from corporations.

POTSDAM -- Algae grown on cow manure for biodiesel production, birds as wetland quality indicators, a waste heat energy scavenger device, and using computers to design a prosthetic leg are among the 100 research projects being presented at the 15th annual Clarkson University Summer Symposium on Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE).

Students will make presentations on a wide variety of topics on Thursday, August 2, in Clarkson University's Student Center Multi-purpose Rooms (MPR) and Educational Resources Center (ERC) atrium on the hill campus.

OGDENSBURG -- The Ogdensburg Maple City Prop Busters flying club hold their Mike Cutwa Fun Fly this Sunday.

The model airplane club’s show and meet runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Maple City Prop Busters field on the Canton Road.

HEUVELTON -- The Heuvelton Amvets Post 1997 will host a breakfast buffet July 29. Cost for the meal will be $6.50.

An autopsy conducted Friday indicates a teen killed in a vehicle driven by a Piercefield resident that rolled over in Long Lake early Wednesday died of “severe blunt force neck injury,” according to state police.

Police said cause of the crash on NYS Hwy. 30 has been ruled accidental.

The teen, Joshua C. Peck, 20, Tupper Lake, was a front seat passenger in a 2008 Chervrolet truck driven by Jordan B. Amell, 17, Piercefield, a town in the southeast corner of St. Lawrence County.

By Tim Baltz

AKWESASNE With only four weeks left in the regular season at Mohawk International Raceway the points battles are heating up, and so was the action on the race track Friday night.

North Country Rep. Bill Owens (D-Plattsburgh), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, has joined 79 of his Democratic and Republican colleagues in urging leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives to bring the 2012 Farm Bill to the floor for a vote.

Owens says the legislation, which renews expiring federal farm and food programs, is critical to New York agriculture, and should be voted on before Congress leaves Washington for a month-long recess starting Aug. 4.