CHEERS: and a hearty congratulations to the Northern New York Library Network for posting its 1 millionth page on its Web site of archives of papers going back more than a century. The network has a site, news.nnyln.net, on which readers can scroll through archives of 28 papers in Northern New York, including issues of the Press-Republican between 1959 and 1992. The network is currently working to include all available issues of the P-R. Not very long ago, only 10 newspapers, with 105,000 pages, comprised the entire offering of the Northern New York Historical Newspapers Web site. Now, just three years later, the millionth page has been posted. The goal is provide, through the daily or weekly chronology of newspapers, a history of the region available for viewing. System Administrator Thomas Blauvelt said in a news release that the archives are already being heavily used. "It is being used by people with a wide range of interests," he said. "The technology is not perfect, but it does allow us to provide greatly increased access to these newspapers." The network includes Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties. The papers in our three counties, besides the Press-Republican, are Cardinal Points of Plattsburgh State University, the Plattsburgh Republican from 1811 to 1820, the Plattsburgh Sentinel from 1866 to 1931, the Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post, Elizabethtown Post, Essex County Republican, Lake Placid News, Saranac Lake Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Ticonderoga Sentinel, Akwesasne Indian Time, Chateaugay Journal & Chateaugay Record, Fort Covington Sun, Malone Farmer, Malone Franklin Gazette, St. Regis Falls Adirondack News and the Saranac Lake Daily Enterprise.

CHEERS: to 8-year-old Josh McCauley of the Chazy Mites Black Team for a terrific clutch performance in the Nick LaPorte Tournament in Chazy a week or so ago. Needing to beat Lake Placid with four points (teams get one point by winning a period and two for winning the game) in the final game to win the tournament, Chazy got them, thanks largely to McCauley, who scored all five goals in his team's 5-3 win. We don't cheer every stellar performance in youth sports (and we certainly don't jeer them), but this one seemed particularly dramatic, one no young skater would ever forget.

CHEERS: to Clinton Community College, which lays claim to an annual economic impact, through spending by students, faculty, staff and the college, of more than $48 million. Students spend $4.6 million; the college itself, $15 million; the Faculty Student Association, $2.275 million; the College Foundation, $170,000, for total direct spending of $17,473,736. Indirect spending, factoring a federally determined multiplier of 1.5 (to determine how much is spent when direct spending is turned over in future transactions), is $26,210,604. That's just one of the ways Clinton Community College is a community asset. Educating our kids and adults and offering crucial training for a workforce answering the needs of local businesses and industries are two others.