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...
TUPPER LAKE — More than 200,000 households in the North Country — 41 percent — don’t have enough income or financial resources to cover basic household necessities. For these residents, local food options are often not affordable or accessible. In...
By Steve Dubbs Here at NPQ, we have noted that a business ownership succession wave—often called the “silver tsunami”—is rising. According to the nonprofit Project Equity, nationally “baby boomers own 2.34 million businesses, employ 24.7 million people, and have combined...
SARANAC LAKE — More than 10,000 business owners nearing retirement in the North Country, and new ones are hard to find, but the new Adirondack North Country Center for Businesses in Transition stands ready to help. The unique collaboration of...
The fourth annual Bike the Barns, hosted by the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA), has been scheduled for Sunday, September 29th, and will begin and end at Tucker Farms, 64 Hobart Rd in Gabriels, NY. Tucker Farms is a fifth...
