By Zach Hobbs, ANCA CPR Outreach Coordinator In graduate school, I studied the concept of risk and resilience as it relates to the development of children and young adults. Put succinctly, the healthy development of humans is slowed by risk factors...
By Emily Russell Sep 09, 2021 — Every year the Common Ground Alliance, a group of local leaders in the Adirondacks, comes out with a blueprint for the blue line. It’s a kind of guide for building a better park...
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...
