On a snowy Thursday in the North Country, New York State Police report investigating seven vehicle accidents in St. Lawrence County, one in which a person was injured.

One person was reported hurt in a two-vehicle crash in the town of Lisbon at about 2 p.m. Thursday. Troopers say vehicles driven by Ronald E. Self, 30, Ogdensburg, and Charles R. Stailey, 38, Roaring Springs, Pa., collided on Rt. 37 near Five Mile Line Road.

Caleb M. Gillan, 17, of DeKalb, was in an accident in the town of Russell along Cty. Rt 21 near Lafaver Road at about 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

COLTON – Zion Episcopal Church’s Fall into Fall Series concludes on Friday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. with a program of seasonal music performed by The Ad Hoc Singers directed by Sondra Goldsmith Proctor. Included on the concert are arrangements of familiar Christmas carols and compositions arranged and penned by some of the finest choral composers from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Malcomb Archer, Reginald Jacques, John Joiubert, Sir David Wilcocks, John Rutter, John Taverner and William Mathias are all represented.

NORWOOD – The Norwood United Methodist Church will be having a “Blue Christmas” on Sunday, Dec. 19 at 4 p.m. in the sanctuary.

This service is for people who have a harder time than others during the holiday season, whether through loss, depression, or loneliness.

Clarkson University engineering graduate student Naresh K. Penta won the Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Planarization/CMP Technology in Phoenix, last month.

His poster, "Effect of polishing pads on tunable removal rates of polysilicon over silicon dioxide and silicon nitride films," was co-authored by P. R. Dandu Veera (now of Intel Corporation) and Clarkson Professor S. V. Babu, Penta's research advisor.

To the Editor:

In response to “Unions Needed,” (Sound Off, Dec. 1-7) if you look around, almost all the private sector union jobs are gone with the unions not having done anything to protect these workers’ jobs after all the dues they paid in. The only union jobs that are prospering now are the government unions that are just raising our taxes in these hard economic times, especially for us on fixed incomes.