West Stockholm News

Over the past year, USPS has been studying ways to cut costs without having negative impacts on communities.

The U.S. Postal Service has shelved a plan to close about a dozen north country post offices and instead will cut hours at many more.

LAGO n WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES Serena A. Daggett, 16-months pushes her own stroller last May after she and her father Donald L. Daggett picked up the mail at the West Stockholm post office.The post office is one of several in the north country that have been proposed for closure.

New York's two United States senators have joined with a bipartisan group of 43 senators urging the U.S. Postal Service to extend the moratorium in place to delay postal facility closures.

A 92-year-old Potsdam man said that after several failed attempts to get help from firefighters, he decided to take matters into his own hands.