SARANAC LAKE — Adirondack Wild awarded Adirondack Diversity Initiative Director Nicole Hylton-Patterson the 2020 Wild Stewardship Award on Friday. “We’re just getting started,” she said, saying she has a lot planned for 2021. David Gibson, managing partner of the environmental...
Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve has honored the work of Nicole “Nicky”’ Hylton-Patterson, the executive director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative, a project of the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA). The group presented her with Adirondack Wild’s 2020...
Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve has honored the work of Nicole “Nicky”’ Hylton-Patterson, the executive director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative, a project of the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA). The group presented her with Adirondack Wild’s 2020...
PLATTSBURGH — The SUNY Canton Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and regional partners launched a Buy Local or Bye-Bye Local campaign, which was meant to bring awareness to consumers on how crucial it is to shop locally, especially for the...
A report from Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA): Earlier this month, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that $11M in funds from the State’s allocation of the federal Volkswagen Settlement will be used to expand electric transportation infrastructure across New York.
The Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) and Adirondack Research, LLC are seeking public input on a series of interpretive signs that will be placed along the Central Adirondack Trail Scenic Byway — a scenic corridor that follows Route 28 through...
SARANAC LAKE — A local composting initiative has received a grant to help organizations, municipalities and other institutions implement composting programs in their communities.
MALONE, N.Y. — The United States Department of Agriculture Office of Rural Development announced today, at a live event at the New Roots Cooperative Farm, that it will award three federal grants to support the work of the Cooperative Development...
POTSDAM — Clean Transportation: the Adirondack ON-RAMP, a virtual summit hosted by the Adirondack North Country Association, Sept. 29 through Oct. 5. will explore transportation in the Adirondacks.
On its surface, racial equity implies the fair treatment of all people, regardless of race. However, America’s fraught history of race exposes how Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) have been disproportionately denied access to systems, structures and pathways...
SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack North Country Association will hold its upcoming meeting as a virtual event focusing on racial equity. The meeting, which will be held via Zoom, will take place on Friday, Sept. 18 from 1 to 3:30...
*Adirondack Diversity Initiative works to create a more inclusive park* By Gwendolyn Craig Matt Hughey was at work in the North Country when a police officer pulled a gun on him. Hughey, a 29-year-old Black man raised in the Plattsburgh...
by Georgie Silvarole, New York State Team SARANAC LAKE — Since moving to the Adirondacks at the start of the year, Nicky Hylton-Patterson greets most mornings the same way. She laces up her neon pink-and-green sneakers, pulls on a bright...
ELIZABETHTOWN — Nicole Hylton-Patterson says she is a fighter ready to “double down” against racism. Confronted by racist graffiti in Saranac Lake painted on a railroad trestle bridge — which she believes was targeted toward her, one of the village’s...
The Adirondack Park is one of the least diverse places in America. There’s evidence that people of color don’t feel welcome in the park’s overwhelmingly white, small towns. The Adirondack Diversity Initiative is starting a conversation about racial bias and...
NEW YORK — The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently announced new and advanced initiatives to help address environmental justice and support disadvantaged communities. NYSERDA made...
By James M. Odato A group organized to exploit New York’s Olympic platforms is preparing for 2,500 top athletes from around the globe to compete over snow and ice at some of the state’s most prestigious sports venues in January...
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — The Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, will launch a new online discussion series exploring the realities of racism in the Adirondack region as well as the work of local organizations to address these...
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — The Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, will launch a new online discussion series exploring the realities of racism in the Adirondack region as well as the work of local organizations to address these...
Protests for justice reform and giving Blacks especially, but all minorities, equal access and opportunities have not decreased in the Adirondacks or elsewhere across the country. Indeed, the second protest at the bottom of Spruce Hill in Keene attracted more...
