OGDENSBURG -- A Jersey Avenue man who returned to the city four years ago has announced he is running for city council.

William Hosmer says that since he returned, "I have realized that if I want to see more of my friends and classmates who have made their homes elsewhere join me in returning to our hometown, I need to work with others to guide the community in a direction that will grow our business base, enhance our commerce, and convince people to raise their families here.

POTSDAM - Many people may remember the days when phenomenal ice sculptures stood before Potsdam’s sororities and fraternities and college students took to the stage for Cavalcade, or may even recall that SUNY Potsdam was originally called Potsdam Normal School.

All of this information plus over 100 years of Potsdam College’s history may now be found online through the North Country Digital History site at history.nnyln.net, provided free of charge to the public by the Northern New York Library Network.

POTSDAM -- Potsdam Central School's After-Prom Committee will sponsor a chicken barbecue hosted by the Potsdam Elks Club, 10 Elm St., on Saturday, April 9.

Everyone is welcome.

MADRID -- The United Church Of Madrid is sponsoring a ham dinner on Saturday, April 9, at the Madrid-Waddington high school cafeteria beginning at 4:30 p.m.

The cost is $8 for adults, $4 for children under 12, and free for children under 5. Takeouts are available, but no deliveries will be available.

For more information call 386-7043, 322-5915 or e-mail [email protected].

HELENA – Helena Fire Station, State Route 37C is seeking vendors for its craft fair slated for Saturday, April 9 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. to benefit the Helena Fire Auxiliary.

There will be raffles and 50/50, bake sale items, and a soup and sandwich lunch will be available.

For more information contact Julie, 764-5495 or Melissa, 769-6630.

MASSENA -- A dance will take place at the Massena Community Building, 61 Beach St., Saturday, April 9 from 6 to 10 p.m.

The Oshiers country band will perform.

The event is sponsored by Massena Senior Citizens, but is open to the public and all ages.

There will be a $3 at-the-door cover charge.

Refreshments including hamburgers, hotdogs, fried dough, chips, coffee, tea, soda and water will be sold.

CANTON -- Ft. Sumter, the site of the opening battle of the Civil War, is the topic at the next Civil War Roundtable on Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. at the St. Lawrence County Historical Association at the Silas Wright House, 3 East Main St.

Robert Wells, former St. Lawrence University professor and former mayor of Canton, will lead the discussion.

The Department of Environmental Conservation wants to change the rules on baitfish to allow overland transport of personally collected baitfish within specific corridors, as long as the baitfish are used in the same waters where they were collected.

The three transportation corridors include along the Lower Niagara River-Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River; Lake Erie-Upper Niagara River; and the Hudson River from Troy to the Tappan Zee Bridge.

The designated waters include their tributaries upstream to the first impassable barrier to fish.