Canton has switched their downtown Christmas lights from the usual incandescent bulbs to LEDs, a more efficient type of lighting. The new lights were purchased from Coakley Carpet Ace One Hardware, a 107-year-old family business owned by Bill Coakley, brother of SLU Vice President of Administrative Operations Tom Coakley. The cost of the new lights [...]
Local news. The word local is so local. It is right here on the page: local. My Thanksgiving dinner was so local. It was right there on the table. I have been away from Canton for a week and so I’m really not up to date on the local news. No indeed. And because I [...]
If you attended St. Lawrence in the 1970s, as President Fox did, the landscape probably looked a little different. More farms, maybe. There were certainly more dairy farms. According to Betsy Hodge of the Cornell Cooperative Extension, there were 966 dairy farms in St. Lawrence County when she began her career, but today that number [...]
Every second, third, and fourth Wednesday of the month, Canton residents can get a free meal at the United Methodist Church on Court Street. Church members, community groups, and sports teams and First Year Programs from St. Lawrence cook and serve food for between 60-120 people. The Free Will Dinners—so named to avoid the stigma [...]
