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Area Students Receive Awards at SLU Moving-Up Day Ceremony

CANTON, NY - The following students received awards at Moving-Up Day ceremonies held recently at St. Lawrence University, in Canton, New York.

Haley A.C. Feickert of Canton was presented with the J. Richard Gilbert Memorial Award at Moving-Up Day ceremonies held recently at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Feickert is a junior at St. Lawrence. . She is majoring in Music and Performance & Communication Arts.. Saints/Sinners and The St. Lawrence Octaves are among the activities that Feickert has participated in on campus..

 

-The J. Richard Gilbert Memorial Award honors the junior or senior student who has made the greatest contribution in promoting interest and active participation in music.

Margaret M. Quackenbush of Canton was presented with the Douglas and Sylvia Angus Literature Award at Moving-Up Day ceremonies held recently at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Quackenbush is a senior at St. Lawrence. Quackenbush graduated from Hugh C. Williams Senior High School in Canton.. She is majoring in English and History.. Lacrosse...

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Fort Drum Guard Site Named to Best in Army

FORT DRUM, NY - The New York Army National Guard's maintenance operation at Fort Drum has been named one of the best in the Army for 2009.

The Maneuver Area Training Equipment Site–New York, known as MATES, was named the best medium sized National Guard maintenance facility by the Chief of Staff of the Army and has been awarded the Army Award for Maintenance Excellence.

 

-Eighteen maintenance units and operations across the Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve were recognized by this year's awards.

MATES provides storage for New York Army National Guard equipment used for training at Fort Drum, as well as providing maintenance support to National Guard units training there. The facility is...

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Up in smoke: Man wins at casino, loses it in blaze

SOLVAY, N.Y. (AP) - A Syracuse-area man's lucky day at an upstate casino has gone up in smoke - along with his winnings. Kenneth Lamoree said he returned to his home in Solvay around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday after winning $3,200 at the Turning Stone casino in Verona. A little more than an hour later, a fire broke out in the two-family home he shares with his fiancee and their three children.

-They and the family living...

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US apple growers seek bigger bite of hybrid market

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Can saucy tactics give an edge to an American apple industry that's been growing since the days of the Pilgrims?

A federal proposal would try to cut into the hot hybrid market in apples that has sweetened the Canadian market by 800 percent and seeks to put American growers years ahead of the growing global market.

-Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said Thursday that his

 

proposal would provide $20 million for apple farmers to switch to new varieties, such as Honeycrisp, that Canadian growers are already selling at eight times the price of traditional apples, such as McIntosh.

The grants and low-interest loans from the Agriculture Department would help pay for the new plantings in November and the loss of revenue during the three years of growth needed before the new variety can be

 

picked.

The measure will help apple growers from Washington state to New York compete with Canada and China, Schumer said.

In Canada, Honeycrisp apples gave the industry an 800 percent boost when McIntosh trees were replaced with the new variety, according to CBC News. But Nova Scotia orchards are already looking...

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