ANCA stands with our Black sisters and brothers in this time of nation-wide grief and protest that have resulted from the murders of George Floyd and so many others. We stand with our Black sisters and brothers in declaring that...
SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack North Country Association is inviting North Country small businesses to enter its "Rad Dad" gift package contest to promote their products and encourage local gift shopping for Father’s Day. ANCA established the friendly competition as...
This April, shoppers throughout the country faced empty milk shelves in their grocery stores, while at the same time, North Country dairy farmers dumped tens of thousands of gallons of their herds’ daily production down the drain. Why did this...
AdkAction is announcing the “Adirondack Compost for Good” project, which will promote food waste composting in the Adirondacks as New York heads toward its 2022 ban on landfilling food wastes of a certain volume throughout the state. The goal of...
I was sixteen when my father died. I could scarcely remember his face, since I was 10 years old when last I saw him. That’s when I left Jamaica to attend school in Norway. Yet, while his visage was a...
On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day, I think about my sister’s prescient and intentional decision to live a life that is marginally dependent on global systems, as locally sourced as possible, and with as light a carbon footprint as...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted some critical stress points in our local food system. Farmers have reported labor issues, market closures and fears of supply chain disruption. To bolster local food security and aid in the resilience and sustainability of...
SARANAC LAKE | The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted some critical stress points in our local food system. Farmers have reported labor issues, market closures and fears of supply chain disruption. To bolster local food security and ensure the resilience and...
hese are the most turbulent times in any of our memories. Some of us remember all the way back to the 70s when we were marching in the streets demanding the end to wars and the launch of clean air...
If voters cooperate, in less than a year New York could begin girding for climate change with a well-funded wave of projects designed to protect the state’s woods, wildlife, waters and communities from increasingly severe storms and shifting weather patterns.
