MALONE — A pair of downtown property owners are the recipients of $150,000 in state funding after completing a competitive funding process.

AKWESASNE — The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has deactivated the Emergency Operations Center, though Tribal Health Services will continue to issue public health advisories.

ALBANY — New York gun owners will be barred from carrying firearms in a wide array of “sensitive locations,” and businesses must explicitly allow armed patrons under an agreement reached Wednesday between lawmakers and Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul.

MALONE — The Howe family and organizers of the eighth annual Gary Howe Shuffleboard Tournament presented a check for $5,762 to Hospice of the North Country this week.

MALONE — Franklin County logged 13 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, according to County Manager Donna J. Kissane, raising the county’s active cases to 51.

Students at Franklin Academy were awarded more than $165,000 in scholarship monies by the Franklin Academy Academic Board of Trustees at an awards ceremony at the high school on June 13.

SARANAC LAKE — Law enforcement officials and the state attorney general’s office are investigating after local police fatally shot a man suspected of stabbing someone in Saranac Lake Wednesday morning.

MALONE — Meeting with the Development Authority of the North Country, village trustees discussed the potential costs of a third well Monday evening.

MALONE — Per unofficial results, the challenger has won the Republican primary and is set to be Franklin County’s next sheriff with an uncontested general election in November.

MALONE — Jay D. Cook leads by more than 300 votes against incumbent Franklin County Sheriff Kevin A. Mulverhill, according to unofficial primary election results.