Halloween falls on Saturday, October 31, 2026 this year, and if you’re looking for the official trick-or-treat hours in your community, here is the honest answer as of October 15: […]
If the heating bill is the bill you dread most, circle Monday, November 2. That’s the day applications open for the 2026-27 Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), the federal program […]
On Saturday morning, a propane explosion on Carr Road in the town of Clayton sent one person to the hospital. Three days earlier, a furnace explosion destroyed a trailer home […]
Power out in Northern New York? Here’s how to use National Grid’s outage map, report an outage by phone or text, and sign up for restoration alerts.
Around Watertown, the first hard freeze — 28 degrees or below — usually lands sometime in the first three weeks of October. Out by the airport it runs earlier; in […]
Today is the last full day of summer. Fall officially arrives tomorrow evening — the equinox lands at 8:05 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22 — and if you’ve lived in […]
The best fall color in New York is a day trip from Watertown — Route 3 east into the Adirondacks. Here’s the route, the stops, and how to time peak color before it’s gone.
October and November see more crashes than January or February — and most happen on dry pavement. Here’s what the data says about fall driving danger in the North Country, and a short checklist that actually helps.
