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Old-school manufacturing, circa 1877. Photo: Marcel Douwe Dekker<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n

600 positions were up for grabs\u00a0at a job fair in Watertown on Tuesday. Many of them were in manufacturing, which seems to be making a comeback.\u00a0\u201cThe big mantra used to be that manufacturing was a dying occupation,” said Cheryl Mayforth of the WorkPlace employment agency, speaking to the Watertown Daily Times<\/i><\/a>. “But there’s been a resurgence across the U.S.” Regional employers expect a boom in the industry to continue into next year.<\/p>\n

The Rural Energy for America Program gives financial boosts to farmers, while developing renewable energy sources. Today, REAP awarded the Woodcrest Dairy farm in St. Lawrence County with a grant of $400,000. As U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand announced in a news release, the money will fund an anaerobic digester, which will generate ecologically sound electricity for Woodcrest — and possibly for the grid, too.<\/p>\n

An Essex County school district received a less impressive grant today. The Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation gave the Ticonderoga Central School District a thousand bucks in support of its backpack food program<\/a>. The initiative sends income-eligible students home with backpacks full of healthy food at the end of each week. \u00a0It only costs $167 to sponsor a child for a school year, so that thousand bucks amounts to more than one might think. As of this month, about 60 children benefit from the program.<\/p>\n

And here’s what’s coming tomorrow, on The Eight O’clock Hour:<\/p>\n

We continue our Olympic preview with Saranac Lake ski jumper Peter Frenette.\u00a0 Frenette is scrambling for a spot on the US Olympic team and his entire family is pitching in to help get him to to the Winter Games in Russia.<\/p>\n

A long-running microloan fund for small businesses in Jefferson County is running dry.<\/p>\n

The State Senate held a hearing on the new high-stakes testing regime in New York\u2019s schools. It comes as angry parents around the state are speaking out against what\u2019s called the Common Core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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