{"id":3918,"date":"2011-03-16T06:59:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T10:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2011-03-16T06:59:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T10:59:25","slug":"morning-read-canada-to-close-small-north-country-border-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/16\/morning-read-canada-to-close-small-north-country-border-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Canada to close small North Country border crossings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s this for a case of brilliant planning.\u00a0 The US is building a brand new $6.8 million dollar border facility at Churubusco in northern Clinton County.<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x10253226\/Canadian-border-crossing-closures-looming\">Plattsburgh Press Republican<\/a> is reporting that Canadian officials plan to close the border crossing on their side of the line, citing low traffic and high costs.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians also plan to mothball a crossing just north of Franklin County, according to the P-R.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dominique McNeely, a spokesman with the Communications Division of the  Canada Border Services Agency, said the plan to close its side of the  Churubusco\/Franklin Center and North Burke\/Jamieson&#8217;s Line crossings  remains set for April 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the newspaper, the border crossings are important because communities on both sides of the line are closely intertwined, with family and business connections.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x10253226\/Canadian-border-crossing-closures-looming\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s this for a case of brilliant planning.\u00a0 The US is building a brand new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4884,880],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}