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Madill Elementary School sixth-grader Aurora Rexford, left, and fifth-grader Vada Knapp work on a story on the Seaway Festival’s Battle of the Bands for the June issue of the Madill Scoop, the school’s newspaper. Knapp was the editor for the month of May. Matt Curatolo/Watertown Daily Times

Madill Elementary School sixth-grader Aurora Rexford, left, and fifth-grader Vada Knapp work on a story on the Seaway Festival’s Battle of the Bands for the June issue of the Madill Scoop, the school’s newspaper. Knapp was the editor for the month of May. Matt Curatolo/Watertown Daily Times

HUNTER — An Ogdensburg man is lucky to be alive after surviving 19,000 volts flowing through his body from a power line in a tree-cutting accident while working in Greene County last month.

The Ogdensburg Police Department, 800 Park St., where an officer was shot by another officer June 20. Matt Curatolo/Watertown Daily Times

OGDENSBURG — A longtime police officer and Ogdensburg’s 44th mayor will have a small park named after him.

OGDENSBURG — A motor vehicle crash on Ford Street claimed the life of a 92-year-old woman Wednesday afternoon.

OGDENSBURG — A motor vehicle crash on Ford Street claimed the life of a 92-year-old woman Wednesday afternoon.

OGDENSBURG — An established Ogdensburg eatery has proposed running the concession stand at the Dobisky Center, 100 Riverside Ave.

HAMMOND — A self-published book by a Hammond man titled “Sophie’s Eternal Grace” is aimed at healing, addressing parental, sexual and drug abuse.

OGDENSBURG — The City Council has doubled the amount that property owners would receive for installing backflow prevention valves in the wake of numerous reports of sewage backing up into homes after major storm events that are overflowing the city's new Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP).