CANTON – A Utica woman has been charged with filing for social service benefits in St. Lawrence County while she was already getting them from elsewhere.

Emma Jean Allen, 52, also known as Regina E. Stinson, was charged Friday by the St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office with a felony count of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing after county social service workers looked into her claim. They discovered that the applicant was already receiving social services benefits from Oneida County under a different name.

CANTON -- Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Jon Rosales will give a talk titled “Can We Avoid Dangerous Climate Change?” on Thursday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Hannon Room of Sullivan Student Center at St. Lawrence University.

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

MASSENA -- St. Lawrence Centre says it is changing management arrangements.

The Massena mall has transitioned from Jones Lang LaSalle, a third-party management company, to in-house management.

The management and marketing of St. Lawrence Centre will be conducted there for mall owners Carlyle St. Lawrence, LLC. Leasing services will be provided by Spinoso Real Estate Group.

Over the past year, mall management has systematically reorganized customer service, maintenance, security, operations, marketing and leasing.

POTSDAM – The cold snap has allowed the outdoor rink in the parking lot at Pine Street Arena to be prepared, and it is now ready.

Recreation Director Tim Carey says there are no set hours for the rink.

POTSDAM -- Professors from SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music will open the spring semester with the Crane Faculty Showcase concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 28 in Snell Music Theater.

The showcase will feature Mozart's "Trio in E-flat," Chopin's "Fantasie-Impromptu, Op. 66," aria "Als Flotter Geist" from Strauss's "The Gypsy Baron," and a piano duet of the first and fourth movements from Rachmaninoff's "Fantasy, Op. 5," among many others.

The event is free, and the public is invited to attend.

To the Editor:

The C.O.R.C. Thrift Store held its first gift basket raffle during the holiday weekend and ran through the following week. The drawing was held on Dec. 11.

We would like to thank all of the customers who participated and the merchants for their generous donations of items or gift certificates.

To the Editor:

On October 27-29 2010, the US EPA Science Advisory Board Dioxin Review Panel met to deliberate on the subject of dioxin exposure cancer risk pursuant to providing its comments to US EPA on the 2010 draft “EPA Reanalysis of Key Issues Related to Dioxin Toxicity and Response to NAS Comments” report.

It appears to be the position of the advisory panel that EPA should make an attempt to quantify the uncertainties associated with its analysis of dioxin exposure cancer risk.

I was following a school bus in Potsdam that was stopping at many houses. I was thinking how much pollution is spewed, how much fuel is wasted with the starting and stopping of this monstrous vehicle in town, the cost to the taxpayers, the time wasted, the plumpness of many children (and their parents), the amount of time their parents don’t spend with their children talking that could possibly steer them in a better direction and show them their love by walking with them to school or a congregation place with other kids so the bus didn’t need to stop so much. Why?

I noticed yet another slam against teacher pay and benefits in last week’s sound off column and had to roll my eyes. Perhaps local taxpayers would rather pay teachers a competitive wage commensurate with the level of education and certifications they are required to have plus pay them overtime? That’s something school districts might have to consider if they really want to cut Health Care and Retirement benefits. Cutting these benefits would likely result in hundreds of teachers leaving the field and/or leaving the area.

NICHOLVILLE – Nicholville United Methodist Church has announced the names on its Community Memorial Tree for 2010.

In memory of:

Glendon Sutton, Everett Sutton, Leo & Margaret Sutton, Walter & Hester Frary, Walter Frary Jr., Newland & Kathleen Aiken, Steven & Karen Aiken, Merton Stacy, Floyd Colby, Frank & Leona Burns, Friends & Loved Ones by Jean Sutton