North Country At Work

Dr. Kathleen Camelo, the director of the student health and counseling center at SUNY Plattsburgh, speaks with a patient. 2010s. Plattsburgh, NY. Courtesy Kathleen Camelo.

Former ski instructor Natalie Leduc skiing at Whiteface. Circa 1980. Wilmington, NY. Courtesy of Natalie Leduc. During the five decades of her working life, Saranac Lake native Natalie Leduc wore a lot of hats: ski, instructor, substitute physical education teacher, rug salesman, lifeguard, swimming instructor, and finally real estate agent. Listen to the highs and […]

Mary Brown volunteered for Saranac Lake Rescue as an EMT for 21 years, starting in 1993. She also served on the board for six years. Now that she says she’s aged out of being an EMT, she still volunteers around the space doing odd jobs, from helping with fundraising to legislative work.

When Fobare’s first husband was finishing up his schooling in Louisiana, she had to work to support them. Even though she didn’t have a high school diploma, she got a job working for a Certified Public Accountant who said he would teach her everything she needed to know. She learned to work as an accountant, […]

Kimberly LeClaire, assistant manager of the North Country Food Co-Op, with a tray of samples inside the Co-Op’s store on Bridge Street. December 2018. Plattsburgh, NY. Courtesy of Ryan Demers.

Kathleen Camelo is the Family Practitioner and the Director of the Student Health and Counseling Center at Plattsburgh State; she’s been in the position since 1994, and oversaw the merging of the Health and Counseling departments. Kathleen grew up in the North Country, and here she explains why she got into medicine.

KC Reiter, left, and Rennie Fenwick painting a large handmade sign. Reiter has made signs for business across Northern New York and into Canada. Fenwick often did the graphics for the signs in the beginning of the business. Late 1980s. Plattsburgh, NY. Photo courtesy of KC Reiter. Read and listen to the full story on KC’s […]

Anne de la Chapelle is the current director of the Plattsburgh Public Library. She’s worked in a number of different libraries in the North Country, including the Westport Library and the library of Clinton Community College. She became director of the PPL in 2013. Here she talks about what a library’s function is, her love […]

KC Reiter, who crafts signs, next to one she made for the Iroquois Campground & R.V. Park. Circa 2000. Peru, NY. Photo courtesy of KC Reiter. Read and listen to the full story on KC’s career here.