Deferiet News

June R. Kilbourn, 83, formerly of Maple St., Harrisville, died Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at Country Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Centre, Carthage, with her devoted daughter at her side.

It has been two years since Victor R. and Pamela J. Delles started looking into alternative ways to protect their farm from developers.

Edward A. Palmer said he and his business partner can't pay the $497,201 owed in back taxes and penalties to prevent the county from foreclosing on the former paper mill property.

The following motorists were charged with driving while intoxicated and related offenses.

Jefferson County sheriff's deputies said a drunken Carthage motorist injured a Deferiet teenager in a head-on car collision Saturday night on Route 3, Champion.

Edward J. Mullen has visited the post office here almost every day for the past 60 years.

After nearly 25 years in business, Francis J. Murray will be closing Murray's Trustworthy Hardware.

Food and insults will fly at the latest Watertown Little Theatre production. "The Kitchen Witches," a comedy, will be presented as stage shows only and as dinner theater productions, beginning Thursday.

Another possible future for the Deferiet paper mill is to make it into a museum of the Northern New York paper industry.

We have witnessed wars' destructive toll on persons, cultures and Gaia itself. It would be unfortunate to introduce this imagery into one of our north country communities.

It could remain an abandoned old mill or it could be something more to a community again.

Bobby Joe Ware, 72, of 682 West End Ave. Carthage, died Monday evening, December 15, 2008, at his residence where he was under the care of his family and Hospice of Jefferson County.

People who live or do business within the 315 area code might have to switch to 11-digit dialing.

A day after news broke that Fort Drum might lease a the former paper mill in Deferiet for military training, village residents are divided over the idea.

The old paper mill in Deferiet may be getting a new lease on life, but don't expect any paper to flow from the mill.