SARANAC LAKE — Building owners and managers in the Saranac Lake area are invited to participate in a new program designed to reduce energy costs. The Adirondack North Country Association is coordinating a project called the Aggregation for Community Energy...
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. — Mahatma Ghandi A little over five years ago my wife Erin and I visited the Adirondacks for the very first time. Prior to...
GABRIELS | Hundreds of cyclists and supporters will gather Sept. 29 at Tucker Farms in Gabriels for the fourth-annual Bike the Barns. The fifth-generation family farm, which has been growing potatoes for more than 100 years, will be the start...
By Aaron Cerbone A quarter-million dollars in funding was allocated in the 2019-20 state budget’s Environmental Protection Fund to help increase the diversity of Adirondack people. On Monday, $250,000 of the Department of Environmental Conservation’s $300 million EPF was set...
New York's new state budget includes $250,000 from the Environmental Protection Fund to support the Adirondack Diversity Initiative. Part of the money will go to hire a full-time staff person, with the goal of making the Adirondack Park and its...
GABRIELS — The potato harvest will be in full swing when hundreds of cyclists and supporters gather at Tucker Farms this fall for the fourth-annual Bike the Barns. The fifth generation family farm, which has been growing potatoes for over...
By PHIL BROWN The electric bike revolution has begun, whether the Adirondacks are ready or not. In 2017, some 34 million e-bikes were sold around the world, mostly in Asia and Europe. The newfangled contraptions account for half of the...
SARANAC LAKE — Nationwide, only 20 percent of businesses that go on the market end up being sold. In the Northern New York, over 10,000 business owners are nearing retirement, and new owners are hard to find. The Adirondack North...
BY: Marc Heller Erica Garlock studied business at Clarkson University, but she says classrooms didn’t fully prepare her for the next big goal staring her in the face: taking on the family’s custom-made door business in Hammond. “Transition planning is...
As I waited in line for a mouth-watering local-food lunch of baked potatoes, butter, cheese, sour cream, ground beef, salsa and butternut squash soup and chatted with a colleague who lives nearly three hours from me, I found myself pondering...