One lasting legacy of the coronavirus pandemic is how it changed the way we work. It’s allowed many people to work from anywhere, and made the concept of remote work mainstream.
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LAKE PLACID The first-ever round of funding from the town of North Elba’s new Local Enhancement and Advancement Fund (LEAF) is going to 17 organizations hoping to either improve residents’ quality of life, protect the environment, preserve the town’s history or provide relief for small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The North Elba Town Council approved a slate of funding recipients during its regular meeting on Tuesday, April 13. Altogether, $560,265 will be disbursed. The authorization comes more than two years after Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism CEO James McKenna first asked the Essex County Board of Supervisors to consider raising the county occupancy tax from 3 to 5% to fund town-level projects. The increase went into effect on June 1, 2020.
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The summit of Cobble Hill provides a good view of the village of Lake Placid. Establishing a better Cobble Hill trailhead and improving trail signage is one project to which the town of North Elba is contributing occupancy tax funding.
(Enterprise photo â Peter Crowley) LAKE PLACID The first-ever round of funding from the town of North Elba’s new Local Enhancement and Advancement Fund (LEAF) is going to 17 local organizations hoping to either improve residents’ quality of life, protect the environment, preserve the town’s history or provide relief to small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Apr 9, 2021
Rachel Leroux stands in front of her garage sale, part of the Great Adirondack Garage Sale, outside her Tupper Lake home on Chaney Avenue in May 2017.
(Enterprise photo â Ben Gocker) TUPPER LAKE The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism and local leaders are inviting residents to register for the 11th annual Great Adirondack Garage Sale. For 2021, the event is moving back to its Memorial Day weekend schedule. The dates this year are May 28 to 30. The garage sale stretches over 200 miles through Adirondack communities including Old Forge, Inlet, Raquette Lake, Indian Lake, Blue Mountain Lake, Long Lake, Tupper Lake, Piercefield, Newcomb and Speculator.
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Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, center, visits Lake Placid in October 2020 to meet with Lake Placid Mayor Craig Randall, left, and Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism Chief of Staff Mary Jane Lawrence to discuss economic recovery and tourism.
(Enterprise photo â Elizabeth Izzo) Tourism is a huge part of the North Country economy, and it’s been just over a year since the coronavirus pandemic changed almost everything about it here. The Canadian border closed, interstate travel dried up, and what visitors were looking for changed drastically. But the region did better than regional tourism offices expected and even tapped into new markets.