Eight months have passed and the killer of a 12 year old Potsdam boy continues to walk free. Family and friends of Garrett Phillips are hoping a community-driven reward fund will help bring the murderer to justice:

I hope the police find the person responsible for this boy's death.

Wendi Clouthier
from Facebook

The family deserves justice.  There has got to be someone out there that knows something.

Noah Herne
from Facebook


It starts with a loud boom and only ends after violent shaking. That's what some residents along Route 12 in northern Jefferson County say happens almost daily. Seismology reports show no activity in the area over the last week and officials with Fort Drum say they aren't responsible for the shaking either:

I live in Hermon. We experienced this same thing about two months ago.  One of the scariest things we have experienced and we have no explanation.

Veronica Lamb
from email

I blame fracking in PA.

Romeyn Prescott
from Facebook

I have been following these booms and shaking that have been going on all over the world in the last year. The US has had a lot of occurrences in which people hear explosions with shaking coming from the ground with no seismic activity.

Wanda Winters
from email


When a high school team wins a championship, the trophy may go in a display case. After a few decades, it probably ends up in storage. But at at Carthage Central, the school gave them away:

I would have liked the opportunity to put my name in.

Jim Lucas
from email

It is very nice to hear positive things about a great district. This has been a long time coming.

Juston Lajoie
from email