Top Stories from NCPR
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NCPR provides locally-produced news stories from around the Adirondack and North Country regions of New York State, as well as Western Vermont, and Ontario and Quebec in Canada.
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North Country at Work: An Adirondack Guideboat builder on sweat, shovels and sanding - lots of sanding
(Jun 27, 2023) The Adirondack Guideboat is a very particular craft. They're made of wood and thousands of screws and tacks. They're wider than a canoe...
Remembering Thousand Islands sculptor Will Salisbury
(Aug 16, 2022) A Thousand Islands artist who created legendary metal creations that dot the North Country and who also had a reputation for his warmth...
Chef Curtiss: Cauliflower Steaks - grilling from the garden
(Jul 6, 2022) Chef Curtiss Hemm thinks of cauliflower as the "chicken breast" of the vegetable world, a sort of blank canvas upon which to add rich fl...
North Country at Work: Kylee Mitchell Gibson on working in the service industry
(Mar 17, 2022) Being young often means trying out lots of different jobs, bouncing around until you figure out what you like. One Akwesasne Mohawk wom...
Natural Selections: Raven vs. Crow, what's the difference?
(Oct 28, 2021) Ravens were once a rarity in the North Country, but now they are becoming a common sight. They have a similar appearance to crows, but...
Natural Selections: "Couch potato" bass evolving in response to human predation
(Oct 21, 2021) The pressure to keep billions of humans fed can have a transformative impact on amimal populations. Overharvesting that targets the lar...
Natural Selections: Get to know your closet nemesis, the clothes moth
(Oct 14, 2021) Keratin, the substance wool, hair, and feathers are made from, makes a pretty thin diet, but the clothes moth has been dogging humanity...
Natural Selections: For cats, the comfort zone is shaped like a box
(Oct 7, 2021) Of all the places a cat can hang out, why do do many of them want to hang out in boxes? According to researchers, cats that spend time i...
Natural Selections: How nature journals put the history in natural history
(Sep 30, 2021) Martha Foley has never succeeded in keeping a nature journal long-term, but Curt Stager finds them invaluable in his work. He records h...
Bill Parmer: Documenting the region's rural heritage with paint and canvas
(Sep 28, 2021) Sometimes it's not the subject, but the moment that captures an artist's attention. And St. Lawrence County artist Bill Parmer loves to...
Natural Selections: Bats can sing, too!
(Sep 23, 2021) Humans, birds, and whales are not the only creatures who can sing. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss recent research that uncove...
Burlington flutist Patricia Julien on how the pandemic changed her - and how she works
(Sep 20, 2021)
Natural Selections: Just how individual are animals?
(Sep 16, 2021) We tend to think that dogs do this, and that cats do that. We think animal species have a recognizable set of behaviors that define the...
More fish: good for the flowers, bad for the snakes
(Sep 9, 2021) The complex web of species interaction is full of odd associations. Stocking a lake with fish cuts down on dragonflies, which helps poll...
Really, really big bugs (and some tiny ones, too)
(Sep 2, 2021) Martha Foley? - not a fan of bugs. And Curt Stager took a course on them to steady his own reactions. The Natural Selections team looks...
Natural Selections: The evolution of breathing
(Aug 26, 2021) All creatures breathe in some fashion, but how the job gets done has changed from fish to amphibian to reptile to mammal.
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North Country educators reflect on a year of pandemic teaching, remote learning, and emotional turmoil
(Aug 24, 2021)
North Country at Work: ironworking with Walter Benedict
(Aug 24, 2021) Ironworking may sound like a terrifying job. Workers maneuver around thousands of feet off the ground, and the metal parts they work wi...
Natural Selections: Why pigeons feel at home in the city
(Aug 19, 2021) The ubiquitous bird of cities and towns was designed for a different environment. The pigeon's distinctive style of flight is adapted f...
Stimulus funding allows for North Country schools to offer summer programming for the first time in years
(Aug 13, 2021)
Natural Selections: Pigeons are doves, high-rises are cliffs
(Aug 12, 2021) Pigeons and doves, both domestic and feral, are the same species. Today's urban environment mimics their original favored habitat, seas...
1.1 billion in stabilization grants now available to child care providers
(Aug 11, 2021) Local advocates say many North Country providers and centers will receive the grants, but that the money won't address the deeper finan...
Schools scramble and fear backlash after the state says: no official reopening guidance for this fall
(Aug 9, 2021) After months of waiting and wondering, the state did NOT release any official guidance to schools on how to reopen this fall, leaving di...
Northern Flicker, the anteater of the woodpecker family
(Aug 5, 2021) The Northern Flicker is one of the most recognizable birds. This distinctly-marked member of the woodpecker family, instead of browsing...
Natural Selections: Why manatees are related to elephants, and whales are related to deer
(Jul 29, 2021) Animals that resemble each other may not be closely related. Sometimes the setting shapes their bodies more than their ancestry. Manate...
The manatee: like the mermaid, its kin live on land
(Jul 22, 2021) The big marine herbivore, the manatee, is thought by some to be the origin of mermaid legends, but it's not closely related to humankin...
Natural Selections: Can ADK lake trout survive climate change?
(Jul 15, 2021) Lake trout require a lot of cold, oxygenated water to survive. Lakes in the Adirondacks of upstate New York are at the southern edge of...
North Country at Work: Caretaking on Dark Island
(Jul 15, 2021) Caretaking for seasonal homes has long been a common job in the Thousands Islands region. In the early 1950s, caretaker Gerald Heath go...
North Country schools are getting millions - why are Long Lake and Indian Lake being left out?
(Jul 9, 2021) Two North Country school districts in Hamilton County aren’t getting ANY federal stimulus money, because they don’t fit into a particula...
Natural Selections: The shorter winged Cliff Swallows prevail
(Jul 8, 2021) Researchers have found that variations in the wingspan of cliff swallows has a measurable impact on their survival in a human-dominated...
North Country schools get big boost in funding from COVID-19 stimulus
(Jul 8, 2021) Stimulus money recently made its way to New York and North Country school districts. Watertown received 22 million dollars. Now schools...
North Country at Work: Chris Beldock and the never boring, never-ending work of fixing appliances
(Jun 29, 2021) In the North Country, it can be hard to find work. But if you can fix a dryer, Chris Beldock says you’ll have more work than you can st...