By Rick Karlin PLATTSBURGH — Colin Read knows he’s at Ground Zero in the growing debate over cryptocurrency mining. As mayor of Plattsburgh, he pushed through an 18-month moratorium on crypto mining after city residents complained of jumps in their...
By Pat Bradley Northern New York is a prime location for Bitcoin miners and block chain technology because of its low electric rates. But a number of communities have imposed moratoriums on new cryptocurrency operations because their use of electricity...
ROUSES POINT — Village trustees in Rouses Point have voted to impose a 24-month moratorium on cryptocurrency-mining operations in the village. “Our priority is always in keeping the best interests of the taxpayers in mind,” Mayor Thomas Batha said in...
By Naj Wikoff A vision of the Common Ground Alliance, the annual gathering of the political, environmental, and economic leadership and related stakeholders of the Adirondack region, is healthy communities and ecosystems thriving together in a protected and unique landscape.
By Eric Reinhardt SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. — The Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) has announced the formation of the Center for Businesses in Transition to deal with what it calls a “looming” problem. The center will help interested retiring business...
New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was in Saranac Lake on Monday to promote legislation that would help small businesses transition to employee ownership.
SARANAC LAKE | U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is proposing legislation to make it easier for small businesses to craft employee-owned stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, a measure the lawmaker says will stave off possible disruptions in local economies as...
SARANAC LAKE — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand visited Saranac Lake Monday to make an announcement about new legislation to help small businesses continue when their owners retire. The junior senator from New York state, a Democrat, announced her Main Street Employee...
There's an invisible problem that poses a looming challenge to the North Country economy. Somewhere between 10,000 and 16,000 small business across the region are owned by Baby Boomers, and they are reaching retirement age. Most of them do not...
The Adirondack North Country Association is looking to help northern New York entrepreneurs and small businesses to raise money for their projects through a new crowdfunding program called Ignite! “Our mission is to help the small communities in this rural...
