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Business

Franklin County LDC funds tourism growth in 3 ways

MALONE — The Franklin County Local Development Corporation is offering funding to help tourism-related businesses, organizations and events. This week the FCLDC announced three programs open to businesses, nonprofit organizations and, in the case of the Destination Development and ...

Glens Falls National Bank appoints VanNatten regional market leader

GLENS FALLS — Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company is pleased to announce the appointment of John VanNatten to regional market leader for the Adirondack Region. VanNatten will oversee the Essex and Clinton County market areas for the bank. The position interacts with all lines of ...

ROOST teams up with nonprofit Travel Unity on tourism diversity

LAKE PLACID — The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism is participating in a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) pilot program with Travel Unity. Travel Unity, a nonprofit focused on diversity in travel, recently launched diversity, equity and inclusion standards for travel and ...

Town built on guns ponders future after Remington plant sale

ILION — Workers at the sprawling Remington factory in this upstate New York village took pride in a local gunmaking tradition stretching back to the days of flintlock rifles. Now they’re looking ahead with uncertainty. Jacquie Sweeney and her husband were among almost 600 workers ...

Public hearing set for hotel renovations

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid-North Elba Joint Review Board is set to hear public comments Wednesday on an exterior renovation of the historic Hotel North Woods. The 1920s-era hotel is undergoing renovations intended to bring back its original look, when it was called the Hotel Marcy. ...

Congress candidates discuss border restrictions

PLATTSBURGH — Both incumbent U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, and Democratic challenger Tedra Cobb, a former St. Lawrence County legislator from Canton, see the northern border with Canada as a positive source of economic opportunities, and they pledge to do their best to see that ...