It has been a sizzling summer in the Adirondack North Country, but The Hub on the Hill is keeping its cool. This spring, it became official. The Hub’s retrofitted refrigerated box truck hit the road, delivering locally grown and processed...
The number, size and distribution of ground-mounted, photovoltaic solar projects that generate electricity for off-site sale or consumption are expanding at quite a clip in New York. In fact, electrical generation from solar has grown by more than 1000% in the...
PLATTSBURGH — With a $100,000 award from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the Town of Plattsburgh is investing in projects aimed to deliver immediate and long-term energy and greenhouse gas emission savings. The town earned the...
by AARON CERBONE SARANAC LAKE — As part of a Northern Border Regional Commission grant package announced by U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik Thursday, the Adirondack North Country Association was awarded $248,364 toward creating the Adirondack North Country Center for Businesses...
We encountered a fleeting phenomenon last week: Civil discussion. It was almost uncanny. Hundreds of people from across the Adirondacks gathered at the Lake Placid Golf Club House to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the region, including...
CANTON -- SUNY Canton is slated to receive a $111,326 grant to purchase and renovate the vacant former Jubilee Grocery Store in downtown Canton to create what officials call an "entrepreneurship accelerator." The funding will be part of a series...
AU SABLE FORKS — A herd of dairy goats will be among the main attractions at this year’s Bike the Barns, a one-day recreational bicycle tour that showcases the dynamic local food and agriculture movement in northern New York. The...
My attention, of late, has fixed on a tagline created to promote ANCA’s Clean Energy Economy Conference. It’s a pithy phrase that has both rhetorical spirit and visual appeal: “POWER – owning our energy future.” A call to action conveying optimism and...
Just when you thought you’d learned a whole new vocabulary (Uber, Airdrop, gig economy, mansplain, bloviate, co-sleeping, kombucha, glamping...) so you can communicate with your kids or understand the news, along comes another whole new vocabulary. Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Bitcoin...
by Elizabeth Izzo PLATTSBURGH | Colin Read isn’t a communist. But since the city imposed an 18-month moratorium on cryptocurrency nearly four months ago, the City of Plattsburgh mayor has gotten an onslaught of emails telling him he is. “I’m...
