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Business

What to do if you’re laid off or lose or your job

NEW YORK — Recent mass layoffs from technology and media companies, including eBay, Riot Games and the Los Angeles Times, might have you thinking about your job security. If you’re worried you could be laid off — or if you’ve lost your job — personal finance professionals and career ...

Businesses bet on the rail trail

The Adirondack Rail Trail is covered in snow and open for business. As portions of the former railroad corridor are completed — and the whole trail connecting Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake and Lake Placid is being traversed by snowmobilers, skiers and snowshoers in the winter — a variety of ...

Rice Furniture enters new era

SARANAC LAKE — As Rice Furniture heads into its 77th year of furnishing homes in the Saranac Lake area with couches, flooring, window coverings and wall art, it is changing hands but staying in the Rice family lineage. Clyde Baker — whose wife Sue’s grandfather, Carver Rice, started ...

Malone Big Lots plans soft opening Friday

MALONE — With the holiday shopping season a couple of weeks away a new store in the village will hold a soft opening later this week. Big Lots’ Malone location is scheduled to have its soft opening on Friday Nov. 17, according to Joseph Baker, the store’s assistant manager. Mayor ...

Review board OKs Main Street self-serve bar

LAKE PLACID — The North Elba-Lake Placid Planning Review Board approved a self-serve bar slated for the space above Faizy’s Fun House following a public hearing on Wednesday. Lake Placid residents present at the public hearing voiced concerns about the proximity of the bar to both St. ...