Each upstate town still has to sign the agreement, which was announced in concept last November.

On a Friday afternoon toward the end of the school year, the streets were quiet in this rural upstate town.

Nobody in our upstate town could talk about anything but the Hubbard squash.

In the small upstate town where I live on the weekends, the people who work tend to work several jobs.

Latoya, 17, a high school student in this upstate town, collapsed to the ground, shaking all over.

Her account takes place in the 1950's in a small upstate New York town.

The last is a 28-year-old secretary from a little upstate town who cares most of all about the privacy this method affords her.

It was the prospect of receiving such an order that caused the city to seek the agreement with the upstate towns.

The coxsackievirus, named after the upstate town where it was first identified, is the most common culprit.

The 34 upstate towns that must ratify the agreement are skittish.