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Blind Bay meeting, Regents changes, Kitty O'Neil
Northern Light
English - June 26, 2024 04:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews news adirondacks north country public radio Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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(Jun 26, 2024) The Thousand Islands community showed their opposition at a public meeting with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Clayton last night; the state Board of Regents is moving towards a plan to change graduation requirements, including no longer requiring the standardized Regents tests for graduation; and, This month, there were two fatal farm accidents in upstate New York. In St. Lawrence County, a dairy farm worker was tending a newborn calf when a cow charged her, killing her. Then, in central New York, two men died when they fell into a manure tanker. We'll talk with Kitty O'Neil of the Cornell Cooperative Extension about the inherent risks of farm work and measures to keep workers safe.