Housing crunch limits Adirondack economy
The good news is that overall unemployment is low, meaning that a lot of park residents have jobs. The bad news is that economic growth is almost impossible without additional workers to perform the work.
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Adirondack Wild founding partner leaves group
Dan Plumley has worked on park conservation issues since the New York Department of Environmental Conservation hired him as a ranger in 1982. He went on to work with other nonprofits, and in 2010 he helped found Adirondack Wild.
Mountaineer enters a new era
By Mike Lynch
In the mid-1970s, the McClelland family built The Mountaineer gear store in Keene Valley out of local hemlock and spruce. “I pounded the nails into this thing,” Vinny McClelland said.
Adirondack advocates seek smarter growth plans
The clamor for a new way intensified over the last decade as critics watched the Adirondack Park Agency approve a massive second-home resort around the Big Tupper Ski Area without what they considered adequate regard for nature. The agency responded with a new process that asks developers of large subdivisions to help assess their land and their plan’s effects on it.
Election could boost Adirondack conservation bills
The November election removed a GOP roadblock in the Senate that has stopped several conservation measures in the past, advocates said.
Who should pay for Great Sacandaga Lake dam operations? Cuomo vetoes study
Hydroelectric companies previously had paid most of the dam’s operating cost and passed it on to their customers, until a federal court in 2008 ordered the formula changed to comport with federal regulations.
Adirondack Park Agency’s next leader could break mold
By James Odato
Karen Feldman's widely expected appointment would signal an opening to a larger pool of future appointees to the job, as she would be the rare agency leader selected from outside the Adirondack Park.
New Adirondack Welcome Center tells Park’s story
By Phil Brown
The Adirondack Welcome Center is a step up from the High Peaks Welcome Centers farther up the Northway.
Trekkers test route as Hamlets to Huts seeks a place in the wild
Hamlets to Huts's goal is to connect Adirondack villages and outposts via people power in all seasons, allowing them to experience the backcountry without lugging all the gear. It’s patterned after European hut-to-hut systems, and the yurt trails of Vermont and Colorado. In the Adirondacks, the emphasis is community-based lodging, in part because new structures are prohibited in the state Forest Preserve.
Broadband access improving in the Adirondacks
Need proof that getting universal high- speed broadband internet access in the Adirondacks is a vital piece of the region’s economic jigsaw puzzle? Just ask Suzanne Hurtado, who lives on Lost Pond. Within days of getting fiber-optic access in 2017, she was able to live video chat several times a day with students she teaches in China.