The Ninth Coast Guard District began resetting Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway aids to navigation Monday following the re-opening of St. Lawrence Seaway Friday and the resumption of the shipping season.

Operation Spring Restore involves the reinstallation of about 1,263 navigational aids, including lighted and unlighted buoys and beacons. They expect to be done by May 28.

The aids are taken out of service during winter due to minimize damage from ice and inclement weather.

MASSENA – One retired and three current employees of the St. Lawrence County Department of Motor Vehicles Massena office are blasting critics of County Clerk Gavin Regan’s firing of a deputy clerk.

The DMV workers say that he’s only doing what other clerks have done before him.

Regan’s decision to fire first deputy clerk Republican Mary Lou Rupp and appoint Cathy Streeter in her place has drawn fire from people who claim the move was politically motivated.

The St. Lawrence University softball team's home opener against Elmira College, originally scheduled to be played on Wednesday, has been re-scheduled for Thursday, March 31st.

The Saints (6-6) will take on the Golden Eagles (0-0) on the Saints Softball Field in the non-conference double-header. The first game will begin at 3:00pm.

Freshman Brian Magovney hit a two-run homer as part of a four-run seventh inning rally to help St. Lawrence to a 6-3 win over SUNY Oswego in its 2011 home baseball opener on Tom Fay Field Tuesday afternoon.

The Saints, now 4-9, trailed 3-0 after the top of the third inning, but scored twice in the bottom of that inning and then staged the game-winning rally in the seventh to drop Oswego to 8-3 on the year. Saint relief pitchers Andrew Weitzel and Kyle Donaldson combined for six and two thirds innings of scoreless relief with Donaldson picking up his second win of the year.

CANTON, N.Y.—St. Lawrence University (2-4) used a strong second half to hand the SUNY Potsdam men’s lacrosse team (3-5) its fourth straight loss Tuesday afternoon. Junior Matt Pope and sophomore Justin Ingram each scored three times in the Saints’ 13-2 win. Junior Peter Pike (Watertown, N.Y./General Brown) and sophomore Derek Frost (Buffalo, N.Y./Williamsville East) each scored for Potsdam.

A late rally by the Clarkson University Women’s Lacrosse team came up just short as the Golden Knights fell on the road, losing 15-14 at Oswego State on Tuesday afternoon. The Green and Gold scored six of the last eight goals, but the Lakers were able to hold off Clarkson to gain the one-goal, non-conference victory.

With three third-quarter goals, the Clarkson University Lacrosse team seemed to take control of Saturday’s non-conference game against visiting Geneseo State, but the Blue Knights rallied in the fourth quarter to send the game into overtime, and then pulled out an 8-7 come-from-behind victory at Hantz Turf Field, scoring the winning goal with 6.9 seconds left in the extra session.

Brendan Kurpis capped off the three-goal rally by scoring on shot from the left of the Clarkson goal, finishing off an assist from Ray Ryan, to give Geneseo State (3-3) the victory.