After a year marked by a global pandemic and severe economic challenges, there are also bright spots for North Country businesses and communities. As the North Country Center for Businesses in Transition (CBIT) enters its third year supporting transitioning businesses,...
SARANAC LAKE — A regional coalition aims to showcase small business opportunities to the next generation of entrepreneurs in a four-day virtual conference running from Feb. 24 to 27.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, on Thursday announced the Rebuild Rural America Act, a proposal to deliver $50 billion in federal resources directly to rural communities as they respond to and recover from the economic crisis brought on by...
When I ask people what they think are the two cheapest, cleanest, safest, most environmentally friendly, and most reliable energy technologies available today, the answer I receive is almost always wind and solar. But the correct answers; conservation and efficiency;...
On Dec. 2, 2019, Nicole Hylton-Patterson was hired as the Adirondack Diversity Initiative’s first director. A year later, she’s now providing a bundle of gifts gathered from area shops to an African American family that’s recently settled in Saranac Lake....
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...
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...
