CANTON – There will be a Christmas service on Friday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Brick Chapel Church.

Refreshments will be served and Santa will visit with children.

Bring a gift with your child’s name on it for the tree.

CANTON -- SUNY Canton’s offerings continue to expand as its Canino School of Engineering Technology has added another four-year degree program, a bachelor’s degree in mechanical technology.

With New York State Education Department and the State University of New York approval, the college is now accepting students into the program with classes scheduled to begin in the fall 2011 semester.

SUNY Canton President Joseph L. Kennedy says the college is responding to demand.

POTSDAM -- SUNY Potsdam athletic department has scheduled another Bear Pride Night for Friday, Feb. 11, after the first of the season earlier this month at the men's hockey game against Plattsburgh raised hundreds of dollars for the Bears Stick It To Cancer program, an initiative sponsored by North Country Savings Bank to generate funds for donation to cancer research and awareness.

BRASHER FALLS – A free community supper featuring meatloaf will be held at Brasher Falls United Methodist Church, State Highway 11C, 5 to 6:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 17.

CANTON – There will be a Christmas service on Friday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Brick Chapel Church.

Refreshments will be served and Santa will visit with children.

Bring a gift with your child’s name on it for the tree.

To the Editor:

The New York State DOT has it right. We do not need a 4-lane super highway cutting the entire North Country region in half. Upgrades to the Rt. 11 and Rt. 37 highways, spanning the Watertown to Massena corridor, are the most cost effective and least intrusive ways to create efficient transportation corridors in the area where business development is likeliest.

The Norwood Library should have been on the ballot five years ago. They needed to get together with the Hepburn Library in Norfolk and together gotten on the school district budget and then share the revenue equally. It will never pass on a school ballot without being a joint venture with Norfolk’s library. The year the Potsdam Library got theirs done in this way, I suggested this approach but nothing happened. In addition, they should have conducted fundraising every year in the past three decades to build up a reserve. It takes long-term vision.

A Potsdam couple took first and second prizes in the Laurentian Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club’s 2nd Annual Photo Contest

Blair Madore of Potsdam received the First Prize award for his photograph "Descending Silver Lake Mountain".