Clayton
A town in Jefferson County, New York — population 4,706 as of 2022.
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North Country deputies sometimes paid to help arrest immigrants
One collaboration is called Operation Stonegarden. New York has participated since 2009. Governor Kathy Hochul supports it. It pays counties along the border with Canada to work with U.S. Border Patrol, including detaining immigrants. This year, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Franklin,…
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Program pays local cops to arrest immigrants
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. A Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy was patrolling near a strip mall in Watertown, 30 miles south of New York’s border with Canada,…
GeneralIn and around Clayton
See & do
- Boathouse Marine
- Canoe-Picnic Point State Park
- Chaumont Barrens Nature Preserve
- C-Way Golf Club & PRO Shop Resort
- Fairview Manor
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Clayton by the numbers
- Median age
- 42.7
- Households
- 2,086
- Persons per household
- 2.2
- Median household income
- $90,357
- Median house value
- $226,800