David Sommerstein
David Sommerstein, a contributor from North Country Public Radio (NCPR), has covered the St. Lawrence Valley, Thousand Islands, Watertown, Fort Drum and Tug Hill regions since 2000. Sommerstein has reported extensively on agriculture in New York State, Fort Drum鈥檚 engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the lives of undocumented Latino immigrants on area dairy farms. He鈥檚 won numerous national and regional awards for his reporting from the Associated Press, the Public Radio 暗黑爆料 Directors Association, and the Radio-Television 暗黑爆料 Directors Association. He's regularly featured on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Only a Game, and PRI鈥檚 The World.
Sommerstein started his career in radio as a sit-in jazz and Latin DJ at Buffalo NPR affiliate WBFO. He鈥檚 a huge baseball fan, speaks fluent Spanish, and hosts a bilingual music show featuring funk, hip hop, Latin and world beats, called The Beat Authority.
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Casino and tobacco sales have turned the Seneca nation into an economic powerhouse. But the nation's new president, Robert Odawi Porter, aims to steer the Senecas beyond smoke shops and slot machines. -
President Obama travels to Fort Drum in upstate New York on Thursday. The base has sent many troops to Afghanistan over the past decade. Fort Drum's been involved in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning.
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The winter of 2011 is already becoming one of the snowiest on record. While most places gripe about the hassle of snow, some celebrate it. It's a winter carnival season across the Great White North. North Country Public Radio's David Sommerstein sends an audio postcard from Ottawa's legendary Winterlude.
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A $400,000 earmark funds an organization that helps connect soldiers and their families at Fort Drum with private-practice doctors. The service was necessary because Fort Drum lacks its own hospital, but it has also helped bolster the region's health care assets as a whole.
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Soldiers at Fort Drum in Watertown, N.Y., say they are not surprised by the news that more of them will be deploying to Afghanistan. Most of them seem resigned to spending more time in combat, but they say it will be hard on their families.
