SARANAC LAKE – Around 10,000 members of the 76 million-strong baby boomer generation retire every day. Many of them are small business owners — so what’s to be done about it? The Center for Businesses in Transition, an organization created...
SARANAC LAKE — In an effort to address food insecurity in the North Country region, the Adirondack North Country Association is awarding five grants as part of its 2019 FarmShare Fund Mini Grant Program. Grant awards ranging from $675 to...
SARANAC LAKE — Local business owners, as well as business support professionals, will share their experiences with succession planning at an informational workshop and networking event presented by the North Country Center for Businesses in Transition.
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...
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...
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...
By FRANK DIFIORE MALONE — The Franklin County Local Development Corporation will partner with a regional coalition aimed at helping preserve the businesses of retiring operators. The effort is being coordinated by Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA), through the organization’s...
By Melissa Hart Deep in the Adirondacks, a longtime institution recently underwent a quiet transition. Donna and Tom Amoroso of the Leather Artisan on Route 3 in Childwold, between Cranberry Lake and Tupper Lake, had been making and selling leather...
Johnsburg Comments are being sought about new informational signs planned along a stretch of Route 28 in the Adirondacks. Adirondack Research of Saranac Lake plans a public forum at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Tannery Pond Center in...
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...
SARANAC LAKE | With over 10,000 business owners in the North Country nearing retirement, the Adirondack North Country Center for Businesses in Transition — a collaboration of regional organizations and leaders — will step in to support existing business owners...
