Writer Dick Beamish writes that Garry Douglas’s obsession with trains is preventing the region from getting a recreational trail.

Reporter Jon Alexander reports that a proposed change in the Clean Water Act would remove the term “navigable” from the regulation, essentially expanding federal jurisdiction to include any water body that holds water for more than four hours a year that feeds into another, officials said.

A staff report notes that Gov. Cuomo has approved a measure to allow the Massena Electric Department to sell up to 20 megawats of hydropower as a tool to spur economic growth.