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Poet David Crews spent most of this year on a vegetable farm in southern Vermont. He was there to learn more about gardening, the growing season, and gain a closer connection to the environment. Todd Moe asked him for a poem to celebrate the harvest, and he created a litany of the garden's bounty.

Chef Curtiss Hemm has a simple recipe for a whole grain version of a favorite breakfast dish: pancakes, using rolled oats rather than flour. He says it’s a satisfying and nourishing breakfast to fuel you through your autumn morning.

Quebec’s incumbent governing party, the Coalition Avenir Quebec, was re-elected with a strong majority of seats in the National Assembly legislature in Québec City following the October 3 provincial election.

The state is continuing to phase in a $15 per hour minimum wage across Upstate New York, including the North Country.

Last weekend, a woman fell 80 feet in a serious climbing accident in the Adirondack High Peaks. She was airlifted out of the mountains. That same day an injured hiker was carried off of Cascade Mountain and a day earlier an injured hiker was helped off the trail up to Street and Nye Mountains. Those rescues all took place while a major recovery mission was going on throughout the weekend in Wilmington. Andrew Lewis, a forest ranger in the High Peaks, led the recovery effort in Wilmington after a man in his late 60's fell into the Ausable River near Flume Falls. Rangers and other rescue crews have been searching for his body since last Thursday. Lewis, who is a union representative for forest rangers, says rescues have become increasingly more technical as hikers and climbers have more advanced gear and skills.

St. Lawrence University and NCPR are pleased to announce this exciting opportunity for two SLU journalism students to work with an award-winning public radio news department. It will start with the spring semester 2023, and continue for two months during the summer of 2023.

Late on Friday, Governor Kathy Hochul’s Labor Commissioner issued an order to phase in a 40-hour work week for farm laborers by 2032.

The State Democratic Party is reaching out to independent voters about abortion, sending out flyers that paint the Republican candidate for governor, Congressman Lee Zeldin, as holding unacceptably “extreme” views. Zeldin says he would not try to alter the state’s abortion rights laws.