NCPR Regional News Archives

The Adirondack Park Agency waded into another fierce debate yesterday. Meeting in Ray Brook, the panel wrestled with the future of boathouses in the Park.

APA officials argue that too many people are building massive structures that clutter Adirondack lakes. Some boathouses are larger than most homes in the Park.

But as Brian Mann reports, proposed new regulations that would sharply limit their size and design sparked anger at public hearings.

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has handed over two probes of the Paterson Administration to an independent counsel, former New York Chief Judge Judith Kaye. Karen DeWitt reports. More...

Tonight the new Iraq war thriller Green Zone opens in theaters across the North Country. It stars Matt Damon and deals with the Army’s futile search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Director Paul Greengrass used real veterans of the war in Iraq in minor roles, including one from the North Country. Nathan Lewis is a student at SUNY Potsdam. He fought in Iraq at the beginning of the war in 2003. He later became an outspoken critic of it with Fort Drum’s chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Lewis told David Sommerstein Greengrass reached out to veterans’ groups for casting.