CANTON -- SUNY Canton is slated to receive a $111,326 grant to purchase and renovate the vacant former Jubilee Grocery Store in downtown Canton to create what officials call an "entrepreneurship accelerator." The funding will be part of a series...
AU SABLE FORKS — A herd of dairy goats will be among the main attractions at this year’s Bike the Barns, a one-day recreational bicycle tour that showcases the dynamic local food and agriculture movement in northern New York. The...
My attention, of late, has fixed on a tagline created to promote ANCA’s Clean Energy Economy Conference. It’s a pithy phrase that has both rhetorical spirit and visual appeal: “POWER – owning our energy future.” A call to action conveying optimism and...
Just when you thought you’d learned a whole new vocabulary (Uber, Airdrop, gig economy, mansplain, bloviate, co-sleeping, kombucha, glamping...) so you can communicate with your kids or understand the news, along comes another whole new vocabulary. Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Bitcoin...
by Elizabeth Izzo PLATTSBURGH | Colin Read isn’t a communist. But since the city imposed an 18-month moratorium on cryptocurrency nearly four months ago, the City of Plattsburgh mayor has gotten an onslaught of emails telling him he is. “I’m...
WESTPORT — The Town of Westport has been designated a Clean Energy Community by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. The designation recognizes the town's leadership in reducing energy use, cutting costs and driving clean energy locally....
By Kelly O'Brien PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) The future of cryptocurrency mining was the focus of a summit at Plattsburgh State University Tuesday. Crypto mining is the processing of transactions in digital currencies and creating and also the means through which...
By Griffin Kelly PLATTSBURGH — At this point, cryptomining is still an ambiguous subject with no clear benefit to some North Country officials. The Adirondack North Country Association, the office of state Sen. Betty Little, the State University of New...
By Joseph Labernik OLD FORGE — Erica Murray, who owns Old Forge Hardware at 104 Fulton St., said business in town has been going well for everyone lately. She said there’s been an increase in new businesses, with a varied...
By Rick Karlin PLATTSBURGH — Colin Read knows he’s at Ground Zero in the growing debate over cryptocurrency mining. As mayor of Plattsburgh, he pushed through an 18-month moratorium on crypto mining after city residents complained of jumps in their...
