by Dana Bamford, ANCA Summer Fellow Having grown up in suburban Boston, it was a real change moving to northern New York. Not because of the swarming Yankees and Mets fans and not even because of the dreaded winters — ...
Jay Ward, longtime president of Ward Lumber Company of Jay, has been thinking about transitioning his 130-year family business for over two decades. In consultation with his wife and daughters, and brother Jeff who runs the mill, he decided to...
May 27, 2021 — North Country businesses are starting to look beyond surviving the pandemic to building back. A regional economic development not-for-profit is set up to help them, thanks to a $1 million federal grant. The Adirondack North Country...
May 26, 2021 — Most counties in the North Country are reporting progress in getting residents vaccinated against COVID-19 though there are disparities for certain groups. A recent online panel talked about the history of medical and scientific abuse of...
May 6, 2021 WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $6 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to provide critical gap financing and technical support to New...
May 21, 2021 SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack North Country Association has received a combined grant award of more than $1.26 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration and Mastercard to develop and implement small business assistance...
by Tim Roland May 19, 2021 ELIZABETHTOWN | Jay Ward came to the Essex County Supervisors meeting to talk about business transition and wound up talking about the price of two-by-fours. Ward Lumber, with stores in Jay and Malone, became...
"Going forward with the co-op, we're creating a new family, and it will allow this business to continue perpetually into the future. This gives us an avenue to keep it going." ~ Ward Lumber worker-owner Kevin Kennedy Ward Lumber of Jay...
The employees of Ward Lumber have made history by purchasing the 130-year-old business as a worker-owned cooperative. The transaction marks the first employee ownership transition of its kind in the North Country region of New York State.
