Reporter Brian Mann reports that many not-for-profits companies and organizations are serving  an important role in the North Country’s economy as job providers, but even as the non-profit sector gains respect and clout, there are big questions about sustainablity.  

A staff report notes that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has announced that the department has recently used rotonone to eradicate non-native fish from Lower Sargent Pond in the Sargent Ponds Wild Forest in Hamilton County. The pond is expected to be stocked with fish next year in an effort to reestablish native brook that had existed before its population was depleted due to the presence of the non-native fish.

Reporter Erica Orden reports that a Wall Street Journal poll found out that Gov. Andrew Cuomo would defeat most potential GOP challengers by a wide margin in the next gubernatorial election. 

Writer Dave Gibson writes that Gov. Andrew Cuomo just made the Whiteface Memorial Highway safer with the state’s commitment to expend $12 million to rehabilitiate the road and the summit facilities while maintaining environmentalists visions of the importance to properly interpret the natural history of the mountain from the base of the road to the moutain’s summit.