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(12/22/10) Brockville storyteller Deborah Dunleavy shares a childhood Christmas story about her grandfather's homemade candy canes.
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(07/17/07) The 187th Lewis County Fair starts today. There will be rides, concerts, a demolition derby, and of course, all types of food. Many of the food vendors will have portable facilities that set up for a few days and then move on to the next fair. But one local favorite has been selling its treats from the same building for over 100 years. Today, NCPR and TAUNY, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, continue our look at some very special places in the North Country. Last year, Joel Hurd and Varick Chittenden visited the fair to learn more about Freeman's Taffy Stand.
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Trinity Episcopal Church Hall seen from Ives Park. Photo: Du'Shawn Williams, Potsdam NY.
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  From 20 to 42 percent of the malaria medicines examined in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were crummy or counterfeit. The poor quality of the medicines threatens people's health and raises the odds for drug-resistant disease. US Airways Flight 787 was headed to Charlotte, N.C., from Paris when it landed in Bangor, Maine, instead. The Transportation Security Administration says there was a report of "suspicious behavior" by a passenger.  An online auction of a vial said to contain blood drawn from the president the day he was shot in 1981 is "a craven act and we will use every legal means to stop its sale or purchase," says a spokesman for the Ronald Reagan Presidential...  A mile below the sea surface near an oil drill, a robotic camera caught a glimpse of a green-gray blob. The camera operator spun the rig around to catch sight of the glimmering, undulating animal. What was it?  In <em>The Right-Hand Shore</em>, Christopher Tilghman returns to the racially charged landscape and the crumbling plantations of his book <em>Mason's Retreat</em>. <em>Fresh Air</em> critic Maureen Corrigan calls...  Canada Top Stories
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