POTSDAM -- Kids will have an extra hour after school on weekday afternoons to skate at Pine Street Arena for the next three weeks.

The usual schedule has open skating from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. Monday through Friday. But the Potsdam High School Hockey Team doesn't start practicing there on weekdays until Nov. 8, so the Recreation Department has extended open skating hours until 3:45 on weekdays through Friday, Nov. 5.

Then starting on the 8th, open skating goes back to 1:45 to 2:45, Monday through Friday.