The North Country and the rest of New York State will get more funds to help people heat their homes as Congress has approved legislation that includes that money.

More funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) has been approved by both houses and signed by President Obama.

POTSDAM – Community Performance Series is fixing to cook up something special this year with the sixth annual Gourmet Guys & A Gal fundraiser at 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, in Thatcher Hall, SUNY Potsdam.

CPS created Gourmet Guys & A Gal in 2006 and the event continues to be the organization's largest fundraiser. Four local chefs team up to design a gourmet menu just for the occasion.

Are you kidding me? How come as a tax payer of the county I wasn’t afforded the opportunity to vote on whether we should waste more of our tax dollars on another bite at the apple as is being given to plea bargain “Nicky” Duve to prosecute Oxley again? What a waste of our tax dollars, 400K and climbing. Her case is all circumstantial -- she even admits it. What’s her record? Not very good. I don’t get a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing she’s trying again. Are we to believe she can find anyone for a jury pool who hasn’t heard of this fiasco? I doubt it unless they’ve been living under a rock.

I think with the financial trouble the county is in, to take Oxley back to court for the third time, and lose once more. It is a waste of tax money.

To the Editor:

Well done on your “rooftop highway” survey. The comments are worth their weight in gold. All the politicians should read through every one of them.

Please consider a follow-up survey aimed at economic development -- what is reasonable economic development or something about the rail system or something directed at the bypasses around Canton and Potsdam. Where are people at in regard to the actual bypasses? This might be interesting given the business attitude in the past that a bypass would ruin business. I think the current attitude is much different.

POTSDAM - Health Services of Northern New York (HSNNY) is pleased to announce the new Director of Sales, Taylor P. Harper.

Ms. Harper comes to us from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam where she served as a fundraiser and researcher for the department of College Advancement for the past two years.

Prior to her employment at SUNY Potsdam, Ms. Harper held several positions with the Northern Area Health Education Center, Inc. over a six year period.

CLIFTON – St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Deputies report one person was injured as the result of one-vehicle rollover accident at 3:53 p.m. Saturday on Co. Rt. 60.

Deputies said a passenger in the vehicle, Amber M. Parks, 22, of 6 Overlook Circle, Plattsburgh, was transported by Star Lake Rescue to Clifton-Fine Hospital, complaining of abdominal pain.

Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTjg) Cody Hastings, a native of Canton, and currently stationed at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, has completed his initial Navy jet pilot carrier qualification onboard the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) from December 10-11 in the Atlantic Ocean.