The Town may soon be confronted with the prospect of having the dam at Willsboro Falls removed or significantly lowered. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently notified Essex County’s Soil and Water Department as well as Willsboro Town officials that they are launching an assessment review for the Boquet River dam removal.

On Saturday, September 22nd, Champlain Area Trails is partnering with the Town of Willsboro to develop a trail at the town’s recreation park on Route 22, across the road and a little west of Noblewood Park.   

Work is progressing on schedule according to Eli Schwartzberg, owner of the "old school" property located in downtown Willsboro. The asbestos has been removed from the main building and will soon be completed in the 1950's section.

There will be a presentation on the new New York State SAFE Act at the Willsboro School on Thursday April 18th at 6 p.m. Essex County Sherriff's Department will be on hand to answer questions from the public. The presentation is sponsored by the Willsboro Fish and Game Club and will focus on the new law as it pertains to guns, ammunition and magazines. For further information contact Roger Sayward at 963-1141 or John Oliver at 963-4421.

The ice on the Boquet moved out late Tuesday night with no noticeable damage or incidents. Ironically almost 100 years to the day of the Great Flood of March 13 of 1913.

On September 14th Rolling Rock Minerals, Inc., parent company of NYCO Minerals was sold to Greek minerals group S&B Industrial Minerals S.A.

After 24 years working for the United States Postal Service, and completing 20 years as a postmaster,

It did not take the Survivor winner long to give back to the community that she came from.

With a big fan-fare on January 28th, friends and family gathered at the Elizabethtown Hospital to wish Ida (Rumney) Atkinson a happy 100th birthday.

High School Soccer season is well underway. Both boys and girls start with full fall schedules. We have posted the regular season here. Join the crowd and support the Willsboro Warriors.

The Willsboro Golf Club hosted their 2012 annual club championship recently but the title winner remained the same. Brandon Jaquish took the tittle for a second year. Jaquish beat the former two-time winner Brandon Smith by just one stroke. Arnie Provost won the net-division title for the club over Brad Paye by five strokes.

The new town tennis courts are now open to the public. The two courts were completed last fall in the new recreation park located on the Essex Road.

In an announcement late Thursday, Assemblywoman Sayward stated that after 20 years in public service, she and her family have decided it is time to step down.

The January organizational meeting of the Willsboro Town Board produced a few changes for 2012.

Fund Balance to Support Raises and Cost Increases

After three budget workshops and a public hearing, the Willsboro Town Board is struggling to complete a final budget. 

Time-line 1960, Cuba aligns itself with Communist Russia and the U.S. terminates all diplomatic relations with the new Castro regime. Is this small town in upstate New York-thousands of miles away concerned?

Two SUNY geology professors spent a few days in town recently working on a project studying climate changes in the Champlain Valley. Prof. John Rayburn (SUNY New Pultz) and Prof. David Barclay (SUNY Cortland) visited several of the town’s older buildings