Mapping the North Country’s story

Okay, it’s not quite Google Earth, but Dale Hobson — NCPR’s webgali — has created an incredibly cool new feature.

Click here and you’ll find a map pinpointing our latest stories. It’s a great, quick reference for where NCPR’s newsroom is focused on any given day.

On today’s map there’s a pin on John McHugh’s home town…for obvious reasons.

Click on Saranac Lake and you’ll find a piece from Chris Knight about the APA’s proposed new boathouse restrictions.

That pin over in Vermont is an interview I did with a biologist pushing for more funding for research into white nose syndrome, the bat disease that’s spreading in the East.

There are also maps on our home page showing upcoming Community Calendar hotspots and the latest sites for our photo of the day.

(Yes, there’s one that shows a late-May snow squall in Saranac Lake, from photographer Mark Kurtz…ugh.)

That’s a lot of pins in the map every day — more than we expect you to keep up with, to be sure.

But this is a way to see if your home town is pinging on NCPR’s radar…