John Moore
First@5 Anchor
WWNY
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John is a native of St. Lawrence County and graduate of Lisbon Central.
Holding a degree in journalism from SUNY Morrisville and a degree in political science from SUNY Buffalo, John began his career at WSLB radio in Ogdensburg before moving to television and another radio position in Watertown.
A staple of Channel 50 for several years, John comes to Channel 7 with a history of North Country experiences and an wealth of local knowledge.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2022 at 4:31 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Load up the car and head across the bridge. It will soon be that simple again to visit Canada.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 8:11 AM EDT
|By John Moore
For history buffs, the site where Ogdensburg's Fort de La Presentation stood during the French and Indian War is hallowed ground.
Updated: May. 24, 2022 at 4:36 PM EDT
|By John Moore
The north county has lost a noted broadcaster, businessman, and political aficionado. Ezra Ford, better known as Ted, died Monday at age 81.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 5:27 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Diesel, the fuel that moves most freight and goods across the U.S., has been hitting new record prices. Who gets hit? Everybody, in the form of higher prices, and one group especially - truckers.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 4:08 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Back in the late 1980s, our own Mel Busler and Diane Rutherford posed for a photo. On Friday, the longtime friends and colleagues recreated that picture with the same outfit and in the same spot in our newsroom.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 3:59 PM EDT
|By John Moore
This year, New York counties will have to run two primary elections - one in June and another in August. Now some state lawmakers want Albany to pick up the extra expense.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 2:52 PM EDT
|By John Moore
This week, gas prices have blown past earlier records, setting new ones every day - if not every hour. We found many drivers making lifestyle changes as these prices take a much bigger bite out of their budgets.
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 3:16 PM EDT
|By Jeff Cole and John Moore
Ogdensburg has settled two legal proceedings involving Mayor Mike Skelly.
Updated: May. 9, 2022 at 4:17 PM EDT
|By Jeff Cole and John Moore
A 22-year-old Watertown man reeled in a record-breaking channel catfish over the weekend.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 2:49 PM EDT
|By Jeff Cole and John Moore
The Watertown YMCA has gotten the funding it was seeking for its planned community and aquatics center on Arsenal Street.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 4:21 PM EDT
|By John Moore
A small fire Sunday evening at a home on Watertown’s north side led to a bigger problem.
Updated: May. 2, 2022 at 4:03 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Demolition crews razed 122 Winslow Street Monday. The Watertown apartment house is where 27-year-old Joshua Jones suffered fatal burns in a late February fire.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 4:52 PM EDT
|By John Moore
A Watertown city police officer was slightly hurt in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 4:14 PM EDT
|By John Moore
If you notice a stretch of Route 37 in the town of Hammond looking better, you have a church group to thank.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 3:54 PM EDT
|By John Moore
A for sale sign went up at Brownville-Glen Park Elementary in Glen Park on Friday. It says $100 or best offer.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2022 at 3:55 PM EDT
|By John Moore
The cost of fixing Ogdensburg’s Riverview Towers is climbing fast. The price tag is now up to $1.8 million.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2022 at 11:12 AM EDT
|By John Moore and 7 News Staff
A 56-year-old Watertown man had to be airlifted to a Syracuse hospital after his girlfriend stabbed him in the chest with a screwdriver, according to city police.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2022 at 3:51 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Fixing Riverview Towers in Ogdensburg won’t be cheap. After the March 8 fire on the sixth floor of the high-rise, the building was condemned.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2022 at 4:51 PM EST
|By John Moore
AAA reported that Watertown prices are up 27 cents since Monday, with most of that increase coming in the past couple of days.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 3:14 PM EST
|By John Moore
You know you’ve been paying more and more at the pump, but now gas prices are suddenly going higher, faster. On Thursday, some prices in Watertown put $4 a gallon in the rear view mirror.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2022 at 3:58 PM EST
|By John Moore
A man who said he works with the owner told us the owner just became aware of problems at the Hotis Motel in Pamelia.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 3:02 PM EST
|By John Moore
There is a new candidate for state senate in the north country. Town of Macomb Supervisor Steve Burke says he will be running for the Democratic line.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 4:34 PM EST
|By John Moore
Imagine winter in the north country with no running water. That has been a harsh reality for about 20 tenants at a town of Pamelia motel for well over one week.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 2:57 PM EST
|By John Moore
A member of Congress is trying to learn more about what could be his new district. Western New York Representative Chris Jacobs was in Watertown Monday.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 2:40 PM EST
|By John Moore
It was a long day Sunday for some firefighters in St. Lawrence County. First, they responded to a 7 a.m. blaze which destroyed a barn on the DeKalb Kelly road in the town of DeKalb.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2022 at 2:29 PM EST
|By John Moore
An influential member of the St. Lawrence County Board of Legislators will not be running for reelection. Republican Kevin Acres is moving out of his district.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2022 at 2:55 PM EST
|By John Moore
There is a new candidate for congress in the new 24th District, which includes Watertown, part of Fort Drum and much of Jefferson County.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2022 at 1:50 PM EST
|By Scott Atkinson and John Moore
The Democrat-controlled state legislature finished redrawing the state’s political map Thursday.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2022 at 2:57 PM EST
|By John Moore
The New York Farm Laborer Wage Board rushed to a decision on overtime, according to one of its three members.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2022 at 4:06 PM EST
|By John Moore
A waste-to-energy project in Lisbon has won funding from the New York Power Authority.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2022 at 2:59 PM EST
|By John Moore
A former oil change business will become a bar and grill.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2022 at 3:14 PM EST
|By John Moore
Meat Loaf, the singer known for his “Bat Out of Hell” album and other hits, has died at the age of 74. In 2007, he appeared in Watertown as part of the Disabled Persons Action Organization concert series.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2021 at 2:35 PM EST
|By John Moore
New York state has been setting COVID case number records in recent days. However, it’s a different story in the north country.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2021 at 3:09 PM EST
|By John Moore
The U.S. Census Bureau put that loss at more than 319,000 New Yorkers between July 2020 and July 2021 - the highest of any state in the nation.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2021 at 3:40 PM EST
|By John Moore
Students at Clifton-Fine Central School were greeted Tuesday morning by an elf.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2021 at 4:43 PM EST
|By John Moore and Lexi Bruening
How contagious is it and how serious are its symptoms? Those are key questions still unanswered about the new omicron COVID variant.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 2:46 PM EST
|By John Moore
The city of Watertown has gotten an early Christmas gift.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2021 at 3:06 PM EDT
|By Diane Rutherford and John Moore
A Watertown woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death in 2010 wants her sentence reduced, claiming she was a victim of domestic violence.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2021 at 5:10 PM EDT
|By John Moore
On Ogdensburg’s Lighthouse Point, a new observation deck has just been completed.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 at 3:48 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Former murder defendant Nick Hillary will appeal the decision that dismissed Potsdam Police Chief Mark Murray from one of Hillary’s two lawsuits.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2021 at 4:22 PM EDT
|By John Moore
QubicaAMF, which makes bowling pins, has laid off part of its workforce at its Lowville plant because it’s having trouble getting supplies.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021 at 3:54 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Ogdensburg Mayor Mike Skelly is calling for the resignations of St. Lawrence County legislators Kevin Acres and Joe Lightfoot, along with county administrator Ruth Doyle.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 2:10 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Residents of Wellesley Island made an interesting find this summer: the submerged wreck of a boat that's probably more than 100 years old.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 2:48 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Governor Kathy Hochul says she will send help if the state’s vaccinate mandate for health care workers leads to staff shortages at hospitals, including the one in Lewis County.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2021 at 12:47 PM EDT
|By John Moore
A 28-year-old Carthage native, who was reported missing in New York City last month, has been found.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 at 1:57 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Two masked intruders were caught red handed Tuesday night in Watertown.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2021 at 1:37 PM EDT
|By John Moore
Was it a homeless person, or someone camping out? Whichever it was, their campfire early Wednesday morning brought a problem to the attention of Watertown city officials. A problem they plan to fix.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2021 at 3:19 PM EDT
|By John Moore
A new problem at Watertown’s tent city. The camp was set up last week as a place for displaced tenants to stay after their apartment building was condemned.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2021 at 4:17 PM EDT
|By John Moore
It must have been a long one or two nights all alone in the woods for a heifer that got stuck between trees.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2021 at 5:19 PM EDT
|By John Moore
A St. Lawrence County man has serious injuries after a tree cutting accident on Saturday.
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