Today on In Focus,\u00a0Gouverneur Mayor Ronald McDougall talks about the villages 250th anniversary. <\/p>\n
He shares how the village received $4.5 million from the New York Forward Grant Program to revitalize its downtown, with additional funding from the state for infrastructure projects. <\/p>\n
McDougall emphasizes how the village also completed $20 million in housing projects and is addressing a shortage of quality housing. He discusses plans that include moving a historic train station and attracting more tourism through the Chamber of Commerce. McDougall notes the village’s pro-housing stance and the need for continued support from state and federal funding.<\/p>\n
You can watch the full interview above. And be sure to tune in for a look inside the biggest issues impacting upstate New York, on In Focus with JoDee Kenney \u2014 every Sunday on Spectrum News 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today on In Focus,\u00a0Gouverneur Mayor Ronald McDougall talks about the villages 250th anniversary. He shares how the village…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7423,7424,9,11,10,49,51,50,200],"class_list":["post-311944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-in-focus","tag-jodee-kenney","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}