By Alex Gault, Watertown Daily Times on September 25, 2022 FISHERS LANDING — Despite months of activism from local residents and environmental groups, the purchase of the land by the Thousand Islands Land Trust, and a local offering of a nearby site, U.S. Customs and Border...
By Diane Rutherford, Channel 7 on September 23, 2022 TOWN OF ORLEANS, New York (WWNY) - Despite overwhelming opposition, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is still looking at Blind Bay for its new station. People against the project are vowing to fight. For months now, lawmakers, environmental groups...
By Isabella Colello, ABC 50 on September 23, 2022 ORLEANS, N.Y. (WWTI) — Blind Bay is still in the spotlight. On Friday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that it is preparing a draft Supplement Environmental Assessment for the proposed site in the town of Orleans,...
By Alex Gault, Watertown Daily Times on September 21, 2022 ALEXANDRIA — Local officials are still waiting on word from U.S. Customs and Border Protection as to where the agency plans to locate its latest construction project, a planned Border Patrol station. After the Thousand Islands Land...
By Isabella Colello, ABC 50 on September 14, 2022 ORLEANS, N.Y. (WWTI) — Conservation groups were hard at work on Monday cleaning up a shoreline on the St. Lawrence River. This included the Thousand Islands Land Trust and Save The River, who worked in Blind Bay near...
By Zach Grady, Channel 7 on September 12, 2022 By Zach Grady Published: Sep. 12, 2022 at 3:25 PM EDT TOWN OF CLAYTON, New York (WWNY) - Getting waist deep in the waters of the St. Lawrence River in an effort to clean up an important muskie breeding ground. We...
By Alex Gault, Watertown Daily Times on September 5, 2022 ALEXANDRIA — Local officials believe they may have a site available for a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, a place that will offer the needed space without risking the St. Lawrence River’s ecosystems. In a document...
By Alex Gault, Watertown Daily Times on June 16, 2022 FISHERS LANDING — The Thousand Islands Land Trust has agreed to pay $375,000 to acquire the Blind Bay property previously eyed by Customs and Border Protection for an expansive new station. On April 13, TILT announced it...
By Brian Dwyer, Spectrum April 25, 2022 Customs and Border Protection has long had a station on Wellesley Island up in the North Country, but it says that building is no longer able to provide what the agency needs and it had plans to move to...
By Celia Clarke, NCPR on April 14, 2022 A local land trust is buying up land the federal government wants to use for a new border check-in facility on the St. Lawrence River. Environmental organizations, local, and federal leaders have criticized the choice of the location...
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