Lewis County

Congratulations to Summer.

And the AC Whitey Thompson Award this year went to Jack Ross of Lewis County, New York.

Ross has earned a reputation throughout the dairy industry as a person who is willing to do whatever needs to be done.

A cattleman, mentor, community leader, plumber, and devoted grandfather, Ross has spent his career developing cattle and people while giving his time and talents to the communities around him.

I can vouch for that.

I interviewed a young lady from New York on our podcast, Rachel Van Buren, and Jack Ross had a huge impact on her development in the dairy industry.

So congratulations to Jack Ross of Lewis County, New York, on the AC Whitey Thompson Award.

And if you're wondering who won what in the Forage Analysis Super Bowl, you can find out in the newsfeed on the homepage.

Well, in today's American History Fun Fact, I will tell you the story of one of the most prolific inventors that you never heard of.

All right? Walter Hunt was born July 29, 1796, in Lewis County, New York.

He went to college and earned a master's degree in masonry in 1817 at the age of 21.

Throughout his life, he was a prolific inventor with dozens of inven-inventions to his name.

Hunt saw little recognition for his contributions to the weapon and never received any royalties or payment beyond the relatively paltry sum given to him for the original patent, which was basically the story of Hunt's life.

Born in 1796 on a small farm in Lewis County, New York, Hunt's beginnings were humble and his education was surprisingly lacking for a man who'd later be renowned for his mechanical mind.

Supposedly educated in a one-room schoolhouse, Hunt, the eldest of 13 children, left formal education in his early teens and settled into the life of a simple farmer.

However, his curiosity for tinkering soon found him helping out at a nearby textile mill where many of his family members worked and where he helped the owner, Willis Hoskins, and another worker, Zeba Knox, make improvements to a flax spinning machine used there.

And I ended up subpoenaing the head of the FBI lab from Washington, D.C. to contest the validity of the DNA.

And she came up to Louisville, New York, which Lewis County is like 30,000 people, more thousand people, big time.

The county seat is Lowville, which is like 3,500 people.

You walk out of that courthouse, you will see a farmer going by on a tractor with a load of hay almost any day of the summer.

Three green resiliency grant awards funded through construction account for $15.1 million of the total.

The New York City Housing Authority received $6.7 million for bioretention and subsurface stormwater detention at the Dyckman Houses and along Nagle Avenue, Long Beach received $6.1 million for porous pavement along Park Avenue, and Lewis County received $2.3 million for bioretention and a detention basin in the village of Lowville.

Their stated objectives include reducing localized flooding and improving water quality in the Harlem River, Reynolds Channel, and Mill Creek.

Another $16.8 million was awarded through the Green Innovation Grant Program for eight projects, including subsurface infiltration and tree trenches at Buffalo Sewer Authority and bioretention, infiltration and stream bank stabilization work in Peekskill and Rybrook.

And this is how we're going to open the show today.

We're this is a story about a teenager in lewis county new york who got suspended for bringing a latte to class because the school board passed a rule without a real hearing and but they're still letting water bottles sail right through um we're going to talk a little bit about civil disobedience with a nice foamy top maybe a little pumpkin spice because that's the season My dad took me for ice cream Saturday night.

I'll remember that forever as is.

That's right.

that parents will always remember.

Beaver Falls, New York is where this story originates from.

Julie Caputa, she's an honor senior at Beaver River Central High School in Lewis County.

Say that five times fast.

Okay, moving on.

A young woman named Julie Caputa, she's an honor student at Beaver River Central School in Lewis County.

At the beginning of the school year, she brought a cup of coffee with her.

And as a result, she broke the code of conduct.

Gordon was logging it in February of 1994.

He was 50, and he ran a skidder for an outfit cutting a hardwood lot on state land near the middle of the plateau, and he'd worked the woods his whole life in Lewis County and up into the Adirondacks and one season in Maine.

And he says he'd seen every animal that lives in New York and most of them more than once.

The lot was about two miles in from the nearest plowed road on a road the crew had cut themselves and kept open with the skidders, and they worked in daylight and left by 4:00.