MALONE — Two local businesses and a group of helpful volunteers worked to make this year’s Thanksgiving special, giving food to those in need.

SYRACUSE — A documentary premieres today through Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology that’s based on a Pulitzer Prize-nominated opera by a Cape Vincent-area resident and was filmed at Akwesasne Mohawk nation territory.

Franklin County on Wednesday reported its sixth death due to COVID-19 complications, officials said.

MALONE — Though the community Thanksgiving dinner put on annually by St. Andre Bessette Parish in Malone was canceled this year due to COVID-19, the parish still found a way to help out those within the community in need this holiday season.

Officials in New York’s Coronavirus Task Force are preparing for at least a 20% increase in COVID-19 infections, daily hospitalizations and deaths by New Year’s, depending on how diligently New Yorkers comply with state virus restrictions, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.

Tom Donahue of Binghamton Road Electric works on pedestrian crossing signals at the intersection of West Main Street and Finney Boulevard Tuesday.

MALONE — The Franklin County Legislature mulled the use of occupancy tax revenue in lieu of general fund monies in future budgets as a way to support tourism through Adirondack Regional Airport, during a meeting Thursday.

The name North Franklin Federal Credit Union, a staple of North Country banking since 1983, will be no more on May 1.

Coming off a weekend where its COVID-19 death total rose to four people, Franklin County’s daily positivity rate came in at 0.14%, officials said Monday.

MOIRA — Five Franklin County residents face charges from the New York State Police after a traffic stop on Route 11 in Moira, Friday evening.

LYON MOUNTAIN — Trauma takes many forms.

BELLMONT — The Planning Committee will approach the Town Board in the “next two to three months” and could present a draft for junk law regulations at the beginning of next year, officials said.

Franklin County increased its COVID-19 death toll to four as a man died of the pandemic disease Friday at Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone.

SARANAC LAKE — It’s not normal for a police officer to spend a night in jail, but that’s what happened to one of this village’s patrolmen Wednesday night.

MALONE — Malone Telegram’s editor for the past seven years is hanging up his reporter’s hat and starting a well-earned retirement after decades working as a journalist and in the field of communications, among other pursuits. EJ Conzola II retired from his job as Telegram editor, Friday, Nov…

WATERTOWN — Coronavirus cases across the north country are spiking at a rate like never before.

PINE RIDGE, S.D. — When Aimee T. Bills returned to New York from South Dakota last month, the homecoming marked her fourth completed deployment to western wildfires.

MALONE — The UVM Health Network-Alice Hyde Medical Center updated its visitation policy in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19 during a new surge in Franklin County case numbers, Friday.

LYON MOUNTAIN — State Police Thursday arrested a Lyon Mountain man, who is accused of manufacturing fireworks in his home.

Franklin County on Friday reported its third death due to COVID-19 complications, officials said.

MALONE — Franklin County legislators voted Thursday to pass the county’s proposed $103,618,760 budget.

MALONE — The Town Board voted to adopt its 2021 preliminary budget on Wednesday.

Seven new COVID-19 cases were reported in Franklin County Thursday, putting its active positive case count at 62 people, officials said.

DRESDEN — Marked and sprayed, an estimated 2,500 Adirondack hemlock trees were treated last month after the second known infestation of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid was reported in the region this summer.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he will not accept an upcoming pay raise next year as the state faces an estimated $50 billion budget deficit over two years.

MALONE — Franklin County residents took part in a rural listening tour, Tuesday evening, hosted by SUNY Albany’s School of Public Health over Zoom, joining a conversation aimed at helping North Country communities meet the unique challenges of providing mental health services and promoting w…

Eight new COVID-19 cases were reported in Franklin County on Wednesday, putting its active positive case count at 59 people, officials said.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday he expects COVID-19 cases to exponentially surge nationwide in the coming weeks — especially with next week’s Thanksgiving holiday.

A Hogansburg man was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison, after admitting he had a hand in attempting to transport more than 50 kilograms of cocaine from California to Canada, officials said.

MOIRA — A police pursuit started in Franklin County and concluded in St. Lawrence County with the arrest of a woman who was charged with felony driving while intoxicated, Monday evening.

BANGOR — A Syracuse man was arrested following an altercation in Bangor, Monday evening.

Leading health experts and scientists at Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, continue to study transmission of the novel coronavirus in households and develop antibody, convalescent plasma and various testing and treatment initiatives to combat the severity of the pandemic as a stronger vi…

BELLMONT – Highway Superintendent Lee Davis spent $54,000 in salt alone, to maintain County Route 24 last winter.

MALONE — The Franklin County Legislature’s Public Safety Committee met with two representatives of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, focusing on staffing needs at the county jail.

Ten new COVID-19 cases have been reported in the county since Monday, with the positivity rate standing at 8.13%, officials said. Two people in the area have died from the virus, one occurring at Alice Hyde Medical Center earlier this month.

All civil and criminal jury trials across New York are postponed indefinitely as the COVID-19 pandemic surges across the nation, with increasing cases by the day statewide.