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The Movie That Almost Was: How Politics Killed a Sackets Harbor Film Before the First Scene About ten years ago, there was a plan on the table to make a movie in Northern New York. Not a Hollywood blockbuster, not some green-screen spectacle filmed in Vancouver pretending to be somewhere else. A real film about a real place: The Battle of Sackets Harbor during the War of 1812.

About ten years ago, there was a plan on the table to make a movie in Northern New York. Not a Hollywood blockbuster, not some green-screen spectacle filmed in Vancouver pretending to be somewhere else. A real film about a real place: The Battle of Sackets Harbor during the War of 1812.

The Movie That Almost Was: How Politics Killed a Sackets Harbor Film Before the First Scene

Watertown Post March 5, 2026

By The Watertown Post About ten years ago, there was a plan on the table to make...

From “Let the Asteroid Hit” to “No Thanks on the Trump Account” Some of the very same people who once told pollsters they’d take planetary annihilation over a Trump presidency are now quietly refusing to enroll their own eligible children in these accounts.

Some of the very same people who once told pollsters they’d take planetary annihilation over a Trump presidency are now quietly refusing to enroll their own eligible children in these accounts.

From “Let the Asteroid Hit” to “No Thanks on the Trump Account”

Watertown Post February 26, 2026

-West Palm Beach / By Hans Wilder There was a poll not long ago — one of...

New SNAP Work Rules Take Effect — What It Means for Watertown Streamlining verification processes to avoid sudden benefit cutoffs Expanding local job training partnerships through Jefferson Community College Increasing coordination between SNAP caseworkers and county employment services Supporting employers who are willing to hire part-time workers into stable roles

Streamlining verification processes to avoid sudden benefit cutoffs Expanding local job training partnerships through Jefferson Community College Increasing coordination between SNAP caseworkers and county employment services Supporting employers who are willing to hire part-time workers into stable roles

New SNAP Work Rules Take Effect — What It Means for Watertown

Watertown Post February 26, 2026

By Watertown Post Staff This weekend, new federal work requirements tied to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...

Border Realities: NY Bill Would Bar Local Police from Assisting ICE/CBP Border Realities Don’t Disappear With Policy

Border Realities: NY Bill Would Bar Local Police from Assisting ICE/CBP

Watertown Post January 30, 2026

By Hans Wilder — Watertown, NY Local Voices Matter — Especially at the Northern Border New York...

AI ‘Enhanced’ Image Clouds the Facts in the Pretti Shooting The Viral “Enhanced” Image

AI ‘Enhanced’ Image Clouds the Facts in the Pretti Shooting

Watertown Post January 28, 2026

Investigative Report | Watertown Post The Truth Behind the Pretti “Enhanced” Shooting Image — What Really Happened,...

WATERTOWN POST OPINION The islands sit just south of Newfoundland, Canada

WATERTOWN POST OPINION

Watertown Post January 22, 2026

Europe in Our Backyard? No Thanks. Let’s be blunt. The Monroe Doctrine didn’t come with a footnote...

White House in High-Level Talks With Denmark and Greenland as U.S. Pushes Hard on Arctic Security High-level White House meetings are happening right now with Denmark and Greenland — and the Arctic chessboard just got real. Could the world wake up to an American-secured Greenland by this afternoon? The map of global power might be shifting faster than a New York minute.

High-level White House meetings are happening right now with Denmark and Greenland — and the Arctic chessboard just got real. Could the world wake up to an American-secured Greenland by this afternoon? The map of global power might be shifting faster than a New York minute.

White House in High-Level Talks With Denmark and Greenland as U.S. Pushes Hard on Arctic Security

Watertown Post January 14, 2026

Watertown Post – Washington Desk WASHINGTON — A flurry of high-level meetings is underway inside the White...

Hochul Channels MAGA in State of the State, Sending Shockwaves From Albany to Fort Drum Hochul announced that New York will move to eliminate state taxes on tipped income — a policy first championed nationally by President Donald Trump and now spreading like wildfire through working-class America.

Hochul announced that New York will move to eliminate state taxes on tipped income — a policy first championed nationally by President Donald Trump and now spreading like wildfire through working-class America.

Hochul Channels MAGA in State of the State, Sending Shockwaves From Albany to Fort Drum

Watertown Post January 14, 2026

By The Watertown Post StaffJanuary 14, 2026 ALBANY — New York Governor Kathy Hochul walked into her...

Clintons Refuse Epstein Testimony, Dare Congress to Hold Them in Contempt DigitalMediaUSA.com

Clintons Refuse Epstein Testimony, Dare Congress to Hold Them in Contempt

Watertown Post January 13, 2026

By Watertown Post Staff WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

Greenland Is the Next Alaska — and Fort Drum Is Right in the Middle of It The North Country’s Golden Age

Greenland Is the Next Alaska — and Fort Drum Is Right in the Middle of It

Watertown Post January 11, 2026

Watertown Post — Opinion & Analysis By Hans Wilder Every few generations, America faces a choice:Sit still...

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The Movie That Almost Was: How Politics Killed a Sackets Harbor Film Before the First Scene

From “Let the Asteroid Hit” to “No Thanks on the Trump Account”

New SNAP Work Rules Take Effect — What It Means for Watertown

Border Realities: NY Bill Would Bar Local Police from Assisting ICE/CBP

AI ‘Enhanced’ Image Clouds the Facts in the Pretti Shooting

WATERTOWN POST OPINION

White House in High-Level Talks With Denmark and Greenland as U.S. Pushes Hard on Arctic Security

Hochul Channels MAGA in State of the State, Sending Shockwaves From Albany to Fort Drum

Clintons Refuse Epstein Testimony, Dare Congress to Hold Them in Contempt

Greenland Is the Next Alaska — and Fort Drum Is Right in the Middle of It

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