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Story of the Day

NCPR: North Country Public Radio

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Get your daily dose of what's happening in New York's North Country, the Adirondacks, Vermont, Canada, and beyond. Host David Sommerstein presents the best stories from North Country Public Radio's award-winning newsroom. You'll hear the most interesting voices on the most important issues in the region. There's even a micro-newscast to keep you up to date. When you miss
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Story of The Day

The Idries Shah Foundation

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Teaching-stories are seed bombs for the mind. Story of the Day draws exclusively from the vast collection curated over 40 years from across the Middle East, and South and Central Asia by the thinker and writer Idries Shah. Though many are whimsical and entertaining, they are designed to help improve the way we see ourselves and the world. Listen to the exploits of the incomparable wise fool, Nasrudin; selections from the World Tales collection, which includes classic tales shared across cult ...
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The Takeaway: Story of the Day

Public Radio International and WNYC Radio

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Daily highlights from The Takeaway, the national morning news program that delivers the news and analysis you need to catch up, start your day, and prepare for what's ahead. The Takeaway, along with the BBC World Service, The New York Times and WGBH Boston, invites listeners every morning to learn more and be part of the American conversation on-air and online at thetakeaway.org.
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(Mar 28, 2024) As the North Country's population has declined and gotten older over decades, fewer people are volunteering to staff local fire departments. Who's going to put out the fires if there's no one at the fire hall? Also: The legislature passed several bills to combat climate change this session. They're now on Gov. Hochul's desk to sign i…
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(Mar 27, 2024) Many kids, often from immigrant families, use an Anglicized name at school and their given name at home. A writer speaking at St. Lawrence University Thursday talks about how her name shaped her identity. Also: Clinton County has $3 million in state funding to expand its busy industrial park.…
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(Mar 26, 2024) The Adirondacks are beautiful, but they can also be dangerous when people aren't prepared. Forest rangers rescued a lost hiker last weekend during a snowstorm who was suffering from severe frostbite. They say he's lucky to be alive. Also: State officials and emergency responders are ramping up for thousands of visitors for the total …
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(Mar 25, 2024) Lake George has long-awaited plans for new worker housing for the busy summer season. But unfounded concerns that the apartments would be used for asylum seekers threatens to derail the project. Also: State officials are warning people to stay out of the Adirondack backcountry on the day of the total eclipse.…
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(Mar 21, 2024) Clarkson University's women's hockey team is off to the NCAA Frozen Four for a semi-final match against Ohio State. Before they left, they high-fived some of their biggest fans: kids at Potsdam's elementary and middle schools. Also: A former Republican Plattsburgh mayor has entered the crowded field to win back his old job.…
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(Mar 20, 2024) There are more than 8,000 people in prison in the North Country. Visiting a loved one behind bars can be complicated and expensive. We hear from one mother. Also: Potsdam had a farewell rally today for Clarkson's women's hockey team, which is going to the national Frozen Four tournament this weekend.…
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(Mar 18, 2024) Corrections officers in state prisons were once coveted jobs in the North Country with great benefits. But today almost 2,000 of those jobs are going unfilled. Why people aren't lining up to be COs anymore. Also: St. Lawrence County's district attorney is investigating dozens of claims of abuse at the Ivy Ridge boarding school in Ogd…
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(Mar 15, 2024) Critics are attacking Representative Elise Stefanik for taking credit for federal funding in her district that she originally voted against in Congress. A conversation with a political scientist about the mechanics and ethics of bringing home the bacon from Washington. Also: The statewide burn ban takes effect tomorrow. State officia…
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(Mar 14, 2024) Clinton County Sheriff David Favro is defending his handling of multiple sexual harassment and assault allegations by female former officers at the county jail. A petition has hundreds of signatures for Favro to step down. Also: State police have arrested the former director of a public housing complex in Jefferson County.…
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(Mar 13, 2024) It can be heartbreaking when a pet goes missing. A man from Malone is using a high-tech drone to search for missing dogs (and finding them!) Also: The St. Lawrence County district attorney is launching an investigation into abuse allegations from a Netflix documentary about a former boarding school in Ogdensburg.…
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(Mar 12, 2024) Thanks to Sunday's snowfall, there's still some skiing to be had in the Adirondacks. Great Camp Santanoni's winter weekend takes you deep into the mountains to a piece of Adirondack history. We have an audio postcard. Also: Assemblyman Scott Gray is calling for an investigation into a former boarding school in Ogdensburg that's the s…
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(Mar 11, 2024) The war between Israel and Hamas has generated concern and outrage among people here in the North Country. Every Monday night, folks gather in Saranac Lake to write letters to politicians calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Also: Advocates for New York's seniors say Gov. Hochul's proposed budget for the Office for the Aging sh…
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(Mar 8, 2024) The April 8th Solar Eclipse is a month away today, and that means that towns and villages across the North Country are revving up their preparations for the event. Indian Lake in the central Adirondacks is working on how to make smalltown infrastructure accommodate big crowds. Also: Clarkson University is shedding its graduate educati…
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(Mar 7, 2024) When heavy rains flooded much of Vermont and parts of the Adirondacks last summer, biologists were concerned about sewer and stormwater contaminating Lake Champlain. They've been monitoring what's been happening in the lake since and are presenting their findings. Also: The state legislature is poised to restore cuts to school aid tha…
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(Mar 6, 2024) Forest rangers had to respond to two simultaneous rescues on remote mountains in the Great Range of the Adirondacks. The rangers who answered the call tell the story of what they were up against and how they got the hikers out safely. Also: Southern Adirondacks Assemblyman Robert Smullen announced his young son died two weeks after be…
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(Mar 5, 2024) Volunteer snowmobile clubs that groom the trails are at the heart of the Tug Hill Plateau's massive sledding industry. A ride with a trail groomer dealing with unpredictable weather and melting snow due to climate change. Also: Doctors and athletic trainers are trying to get student-athletes and their parents to take concussions more …
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(Mar 4, 2024) Snowmobiling is an $80 million a year industry on the Tug Hill Plateau in Lewis County. But it's been missing the key ingredient this winter: snow. How snowmobilers and businesses see the future of winters with less reliable conditions. Also: A Syracuse woman launched into space last night, the second Black woman to be part of a long-…
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(Mar 1, 2024) Can you actually learn history from war re-enactors? Reporter Lucy Grindon went to the Battle of Ogdensburg re-enactment to figure out what the War of 1812 was really about. Also: A Washington County man was sentenced to the maximum of 25 years to life for killing a young woman who accidentally drove up his driveway.…
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(Feb 29, 2024) The decision of Plattsburgh's mayor not to run for re-election is setting off a Democratic primary in the city, and debate about how the party endorses its candidates. Also: Thousands of people remain without power in the North Country after last night's wind storm. And, a special Leap Day birthday celebration!…
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(Feb 28, 2024) As the North Country prepares for the awe of the total solar eclipse on April 8th, we have the story of a retired science teacher in Clinton County who took a road trip to an eclipse in 1970. And he recorded the whole thing. Also: The Clinton County Sheriff's Office seized nearly 50 dogs from an animal shelter north of Plattsburgh.…
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(Feb 27, 2024) Anne Hampton was a free Black woman from Hudson Falls in the 1800s when her husband was kidnapped and enslaved. He's the subject of the Oscar-winning film 'Twelve Years a Slave.' A historian tells her story, part of our Black History Month coverage. Also: Democrats voted yesterday to reject a bipartisan commission's new Congressional…
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(Feb 26, 2024) It takes very specific weather conditions for a lake to freeze up just right for skating. The last week has been perfect on the cliff-lined Cascade Lakes near Lake Placid, and hundreds of skaters have been out for wild skating. Also: Gov. Hochul says she'd be supportive if President Biden cracked down on the southern border.…
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(Feb 23, 2024) All this week, we're highlighting stories about Black history in the North Country for Black history month. Today, the story of how the Adirondack Experience in Blue Mountain Lake partnered with a Black artist last summer to bear witness to the site where a Black man was killed nearly a century ago. Also: Democrats have some options …
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(Feb 22, 2024) A public library in the town of Lake Luzerne is set to reopen next week, after almost half a year of being closed. The local community erupted with controversy last spring after the library invited a drag queen to come read books to kids. Last September, the librarian resigned. Now, five months later, the library has finally hired a …
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(Feb 21, 2024) February is Black History month, and this week, NCPR is re-airing stories from the past year that focus on Black heritage and life in the North Country. Today, we hear from the author and prison reform activist Alice Green, who grew up in a small mining community on Lake Champlain in the 1950s and '60s. When Green was a kid, her fami…
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(Feb 20, 2024) In the 1920s and '30s, the Ku Klux Klan terrorized people in St. Lawrence County. The white supremacist group drove out most of the area’s Black population over the span of a decade. Also: Clarkson University recently started a nine-month paramedic training program. Officials say they hope to double the number of paramedics in St. La…
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(Feb 16, 2024) Tens of thousands of people have passed through the North Country's border with Canada over the last decade, traveling both north and south. An exhibition on display at SUNY Plattsburgh focuses on the humans behind that mass migration. Also: Voters in Elizabethtown and Westport said no to a proposed $66 million school for a merged di…
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(Feb 15, 2024) A controversy is erupting in Saranac Lake over one of the participants in its famous Winter Carnival parade. A monster truck with a Confederate flag on it is raising questions about free speech and hate symbols. Also: More details are emerging about how police and a family member stopped a potential shooting at Plattsburgh's hospital…
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(Feb 14, 2024) The Adirondack Loj at Heart Lake is fertile ground for love stories. On this Valentine's Day, a romance that blossomed on a work crew near the shores of Heart Lake. Also: New York state has reached an agreement with The Nature Conservancy to permanently protect more than 14,000 acres in the Adirondacks, including Follensby Pond.…
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(Feb 13, 2024) When two school districts merge, residents face a vexing question of which school stays and which goes, or do they build a whole new one? A school district in the Champlain Valley will vote on Thursday on a proposed $66 million new building. Also: A tragic love story that coined the name of one of the Adirondacks' most famous lakes. …
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(Feb 12, 2024) In recent years, fewer people across the North Country have been signing up to host foster kids. That means foster kids are moving further and more often, switching schools, and risk losing touch with biological parents. Also: At a hearing last week in Albany, Assemblyman Scott Gray asked SUNY's chancellor for assurances that SUNY Po…
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(Feb 9, 2024) The announcement that Plattsburgh’s mayor won’t seek another term has set off a race for the city’s top job in November. Democrats have already coalesced around Wendell Hughes. Also: The old Kraft plant in Canton is going to be empty after a manufacturer pulled out suddenly at the end of last year.…
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(Feb 8, 2024) With Valentine's Day around the corner, we asked NCPR's Texting Club for love stories! First up, a couple grew up down the street in Potsdam but it took a Halloween bash to bring them together. Also: An annual survey on the North County’s quality of life finds people are struggling with housing, child care, and inflation.…
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(Feb 7, 2024) The North Country has a severe shortage of tens of thousands of workers. A new initiative called Next Move New York aims to turn Fort Drum near Watertown into a workforce pipeline for the entire region. Also: The federal prison in Ray Brook in the Adirondacks is currently on lockdown.بقلم NCPR News
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(Feb 6, 2024) A recent Cornell University study throws the future of cold water fish species like brook trout into question. It found that 95% of Adirondack lakes have an oxygen problem that threatens the fish. Also: Congresswoman Elise Stefanik and Governor Kathy Hochul are sparring over congressional efforts to find a bipartisan agreement on bord…
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