Campers roll in despite weather

STATE PARKS: The 24 facilities in region booked at 96 percent

For the past 45 Independence Days, Timothy Collette, Redwood, has come to the same spot at the Westcott Beach picnic area for a family reunion.

BEETLE BATTLE WAGED

EMERALD ASH BORER: Tree traps set for alien invaders

Wonder what those big purple prisms are, hanging from the trees on either side of the highway as you drive through the north country? The 2-foot-long gizmos swaying from branches 15 to 20 feet up -- especially visible in St. Lawrence County -- aren't...

• Campers roll in despite weather
• BEETLE BATTLE WAGED
• Thousand Islands area boasts popular summer attractions
• Morristown once again draws a crowd for July Fourth parade. B2
• Coast Guard rescues men swept into Lake Ontario
• Five injured in crash; driver one of several charged with DWI
• In Sackets, Fourth features War of 1812
• Group of 20 bicyclists begins Ride for Africycle
• New DANC role for Johnson
• DANC offers loans for predevelopment costs
• JCIDA, DANC approve funds for YMCA day-care facility
• Seaway Trail center seeks quilts for show in March
• Children's mental health training session scheduled
• Cooperative Extension sets fly-management sessions

• GM to sell casting plant in Massena
• Hospital revises assessment for health-care zone
• Morristown parade 'the place to be on the Fourth'
• Two get sentence for pot in car
• Sexual abuser's charges tossed

• JCIDA requests additional control
• Jefferson IDA eyes separate loan agency
• Artist's personal work on display
• Aubertine in home district while 'present' in Albany
• Police: man with knife stole credit card
• Interview, lab tests awaited in probe of fatal crash in Clayton
• Six H1N1 cases confirmed in Jefferson County kids
• Army Secretary Geren here in surprise Fort Drum visit

• Border stop in Massena nets $1.5m in Ecstasy
• Hackett family remains involved
• Official discusses health concerns
• Fort La Presentation makes push to draw Canadians to its big event
• More time is expected to study dam project
• CSEA, St. Lawrence County declare impasse in talks

• JRC program loses $400,000
• Alleged scheme yields lawsuit
• Ag museum facing tough times
• Soldier's parents donate $19,610 scholarship match
• Colleges get tips to attract soldiers
• 3rd BCT sergeant is killed in Afghanistan bomb attack
• Miss Thousand Islands volunteer feted
• Guilty plea offered in Stewart's robberies
• Mathous indicted on abuse charges
• Redwood man admits guilt in August hit-and-run death

• County keeps losing counsel
• Fox has first day at helm of SLU
• Plaza owner not worried about vacancies
• 8 accused of helping move pot worth $27m
• Gouverneur's Circle Inn, sold to buyer, opening soon
• Plea deal considered for 4 accused of torturing, killing finch
• Goose tagging, tracking is 'fun'
• Hopefuls in 23rd eye party backing
• Interns aiding in first steps of Ogdensburg redevelopment
• Woman accused of illegally keeping wildlife

• Board: oust outed officer
• Scozzafava lining up campaign ducks
• Increase in JCC funding backed
• Program helping Carthage ninth-graders
• Half of Chaumont farm's land paying off for owners, birds
• Planning Board considers traffic at bottle center
• County planners OK Hounsfield's zoning changes
• Price Chopper, Hannaford recall meat
• Patch of land in Fishers Landing may sell for $1
• Food and beer sampling scheduled at zoo on Aug. 1
• Fungal infection strikes region's tomato plants
• Tale of a shipwrecked tar to be told at Sackets event
• Lt. Murphy of city force opts to retire
• Summer camps offer stress relief
• Cross Island Farms hosting food event
• Respiratory program is offered at JCC
• Attendance at air show falls short of expectations

• More than 200 Mohawk backers arrive from across Canada
• Beacon Lights event in Waddington to mark Seaway flood
• SLU buys two houses near its campus
• Mare's Wares festival today in Morristown
• Group seeking buyer for Morley Heritage Gristmill
• GOP lacks hopeful for district attorney

• Doheny sets up campaign account
• Hearing judge reserves decision
• RIVERWALK SECTION OPENS
• Fort Drum soldier killed in crash in Afghanistan
• Watertown teen is cited with disorderly conduct
• Physicist pledges funds to bolster science fair
• Tri-county area offers local food guides
• Babcock & Brown deal sends wind projects to Riverstone
• Salvation Army readies for elementary pupils
• Man admits to stealing loaded CFM delivery truck
• Veterans embrace mobile center
• Clayton Opera House to get air conditioning upgrade
• Farm Service Agency accepting nominations for local committees until Aug. 3
• South Jeff grad to receive potato growers scholarship award
• Pride program expands locally

• New leader hired for Hacketts chain
• County will evaluate ATV trail system in fall
• Judge delays classification of sex offender until July 20
• APA considers classifying bodies of water as wilderness
• Democrats in Gouverneur schedule caucus for July 20
• Acco workers back to full pay
• Chief assistant DA to resign over workload, pay complaints
• Man admits to gun possession
• Four Seasons: couple opens flea market on Route 11

• Man dies in car accident
• New Clayton health center 'a great asset'
• Crowd buys up history at annual antique show
• Seaway Trail center has set hours for summer
• Battlefield in Sackets to host July 4 celebration
• Organic products guide offered
• Cornell Extension plans baby-sitting camp in July
• Neighbors of Watertown program lends a hand to first-time home buyers

• Spill suit stirs questions about who should pay
• Horses and riders conquer challenges
• Teen cited with DWI in stolen car
• Museum art back after long road trip
• Massena park to celebrate with free admission July 10
• Waddington concert series set
• Special events set for summer

• Paterson tires of 'juvenile fighting'
• Palates pleased at Mount Carmel Feast
• Preview of zoo's new river otter exhibit scheduled for July 9
• Regents mull adding 5th year diploma
• Houghton Farm still being watched
• Three motorists accused of DWI
• Soldiers welcomed home with an airplane-filled sky
• State DEC has spots open at summer education camp
• Man indicted in burglary, sidewalk crash
• Bikers' engines roar at Alex Bay rally

• Calls to be taken 24 hours a day
• Morristown wind group eyes landowner protection
• SUNY Canton OnLine enrollment is expanding
• Bluegrass fest booms despite gray skies
• Three Clarkson professors receive grants from EPA
• Counties designated as part of intense drug trafficking area
• Green Team aims to cut Colton-Pierrepont's carbon footprint
• Class's work bound for D.C.
• 'Idol' plan stirs up fundraiser