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Month: January 2023

Stec: 2023 Needs To See New York State Start Reducing Taxes, Fees For Small Businesses

Posted onJanuary 16, 2023
Sen. Dan Stec’s 45th District includes Warren and Washington counties.

By Sen. Dan Stec

As state lawmakers head into the 2023 Legislative Session, we must chart a better direction for our state and communities. Years of neglect and poor state planning, combined with the aftermath of the pandemic, have led to an exodus of New Yorkers from our state and fewer opportunities for existing residents and business owners to prosper. 

Given the uncertain economic outlook nationwide, it only makes sense for New York state to offer small businesses some sorely needed financial breathing room by reducing the taxes and fees that drive up costs and make it harder for them to stay open, much less grow and develop. During a time of increased energy and supply costs, it’s incumbent upon state government to not exacerbate these problems.

Last year, the state comptroller released an audit on the Department of Labor’s unemployment insurance assessment surcharge. It revealed that billions in improper payments from businesses and overpayments to New Yorkers were issued, due to poor oversight and an antiquated system. 

This is deeply troubling, and I’m looking to remedy this situation moving forward. First, we must take steps to shore up the infrastructure and operations at the DOL to ensure further waste and fraud is prevented. Offering financial remuneration to small business owners for their overpayments, which only exacerbated the economic difficulties they faced during the pandemic and its aftermath, is also essential. 

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World University Games In Lake Placid Will Have Major Economic Impact On The Region

Posted onJanuary 16, 2023January 16, 2023
Gore Mountain will host skiing and snowboarding competitions at the World University Games. Some 1,443 athletes, representing more than 540 universities and 46 nations will participate.
Paul Post

By Paul Post

The Lake Placid-based, January 12-22 World University Games are having a direct economic impact on the entire North County including Warren County as Great Escape Lodge in Queensbury is the official athlete village for 200 people taking part in freestyle ski events at Gore Mountain.

This includes athletes, coaches, delegates and officials from more than two dozen countries.

“We worked closely with community and state leaders to provide a bid for the opportunity to host this amazing event,” said Jennifer Mance, resort marketing and sales manager. “We’re honored for the opportunity to provide a fantastic experience for visiting athletes. While the popularity of our property is year-round given our indoor waterpark, we are proud to support this event along with our entire region and believe it will have a positive impact for many businesses in our area for the duration of the Games.”

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Stewart’s Shops Annual Holiday Match Program Amasses $2M For Area Nonprofits

Posted onJanuary 16, 2023

The 2022 Holiday Match Program conducted by Stewart’s Shops has raised over $2 million for local children’s organizations, the company said. 

From Thanksgiving Day through Christmas Day, Stewart’s customers donated $1,011,281 to the program. Each individual donation was doubled by Stewart’s Shops. With no administrative fees, 100 percent of the funds benefit local, nonprofit children’s organizations.

“We are continually amazed by the generosity of our customers. We are proud to double their gifts allowing us to share more with our communities. These gifts have the power to accelerate progress where it’s needed most and support projects and services that can fuel real change in our communities,” according to Jennifer Frame, Stewart’s Shops director of corporate philanthropy.

Some 1,716 children’s organizations received funding from last year’s Holiday Match campaign.The grants help children all year long.

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Marc Yrsha Of Glens Falls National Bank & Trust Is ARCC Board Chairman For 2023

Posted onJanuary 16, 2023
Marc Yrsha, chairman, Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce board of directors.
Courtesy ARCC

The Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce (ARCC) has selected Marc Yrsha as chairman of its board of directors for 2023.

ARCC also announced the addition of four new members to its board of directors in 2023. 

Yrsha is executive vice president and director of relationship banking of Glens Falls National Bank & Trust Co.

“The ARCC plays a critical role in our region by championing the needs, ideas and goals of our business community. I am very appreciative of the opportunity to chair this great board of highly engaged volunteers and work alongside the tremendous team at the ARCC,” Yrsha said. 

“Together, we will continue to be the local leader supporting, educating, advocating and delivering for the members of the ARCC and our business community. Thank you to all the members of the ARCC. We appreciate you,” he said.

“The ARCC is so fortunate to have a board that is dedicated to the organization and our business community. We are grateful for past board members’ service and excited to welcome on our new board members. We can achieve so much together,” said ARCC President and CEO Tricia Rogers.

The new board members are Ray Agnew, Bill Moon, Paula Traina and Daniel W. Washburn.

Agnew is vice president for hospital and community engagement at Glens Falls Hospital, taking on that role in February 2020. Previously he served as vice president for college advancement at Paul Smith’s College. For 14 years he also served as vice president for community relations of Glens Falls Hospital and executive vice president of the Glens Falls Hospital Foundation.  

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Personnel Briefs: January 2023

Posted onJanuary 16, 2023

The Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce (ARCC) hired Ava Kanninen  as membership manager.

Kanninen was formerly employed by Stewart’s Shops, working across upstate New York. She also spent close to a decade working in the wine and spirits field, most recently as a territory sales manager, 

She moved to Warren in 2009 and became a Glens Falls homeowner in 2021. She is a long-term community coordinator for the Red Cross Blood Program, as well as a five-gallon donor herself. She is also an ambassador for C.O.R.E., Children Of Restaurant Employees.

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Lexi Carroll has been hired as convention services coordinator at the Lake George Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Also, Emily Petit Frost was hired as membership manager at the Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce. 

The LGRCVB is a division of the Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce  and serves as an extension of the Warren County Tourism Department to promote year-round group business.

Carroll, of Granville, is a graduate of SUNY Plattsburgh. She began her professional career at Country Meadows Barn in Fort Ann, serving  as a wedding coordinator. She continued her career in the weddings industry at Kate Taylor Weddings & Events, where she served as an assistant coordinator, directing wedding day events, ceremony timing and coordination of all vendors on site.

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Her new role involves servicing and supporting all conventions, sporting tournaments and meetings booked and assisted by the LGRCVB sales team and contributing to developing and delivering meeting/convention services. She will work closely with the sales manager, reunion/sports coordinator, marketing coordinator. These services include but are not limited to the coordination of pre-event services and attendance building marketing, providing attendee resources, executing press and media on the event, registration and logistics during meetings/events, as well as post-event follow up.

Frost, of Queensbury, is a SUNY Potsdam graduate. She will be responsible for the evaluation of the Chamber’s dues structure, membership collateral and recruiting efforts to grow the Chamber’s membership.

She will also be responsible for advertising sales opportunities in the Chamber’s annual Four-Season Guidebook, internet sales and brochure display sales at the Village Information Center on the corner of Beach Road and Canada Street in Lake George.

She started her professional career in Syracuse at Techtronic Industries, completed a sales training program and managed a team of 12 representatives for five years. Upon her return to the area, Frost began her career as a real estate salesperson for Julie & Co. Realty.

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Employment Training For Adults Program Gets Grant To Help People Enroll In Its Sessions

Posted onJanuary 16, 2023
Michelle Stockwell, ETA administrator for adult programs, and ETA instructor Jason Viele, center, receive a check from Allendale Machinery local sales engineer Dave Sharpe.
Courtesy ETA

The Gene Haas Foundation recently awarded the local Employment Training for Adults (ETA) Machine Tool Technology program a grant to assist with student tuition and program needs.

ETA is affiliated with the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES. The grant will help people enroll in the  Machine Tool Technology program and prepare themselves for a successful career. 

Dave Sharpe, local sales engineer with Allendale Machinery, recently presented the check to ETA instructor Jason Viele and Michelle Stockwell, administrator for adult programs.

Allendale Machinery Systems supplies manufacturing solutions for local businesses with a main product provided by Haas Automation, the largest supplier of American-made machine tools in the country. Both Allendale and Haas are big supporters of education.

“If you look around, you won’t see a product that didn’t have a machine tool involved in its creation,” Sharpe said. “For example, your toaster, refrigerator, or furnace all had machine tools making components or tooling. Medical products like the MRIs used in diagnosis are made locally. The list seems endless. The demand is behind the supply for trained people to operate the manufacturing equipment for industry. 

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Sisters Open Consignment Shop In Glens Falls As A Business To Operate During Retirement

Posted onJanuary 16, 2023
Fashion Follies in Glens Falls offers casual clothing, pocketbooks, jewelry, wedding gowns, prom dresses, fancy hats and other items for special occasions.

By Jill Nagy

A new consignment shop, Fashion Follies,  has opened at 32 South St., Glens Falls, next to Peter’s Diner.

“People love consignment stores,” said Lori Arpey  who opened the new venture with her sister Lisa Arpey.

Fashion Follies is almost like two stores in one. One section offers day-to-day items like casual clothing, pocketbooks, and jewelry. The other side features wedding gowns, prom dresses, fancy hats, and other special occasion clothes.

“Everything is gently used” and much of it looks new, Arpey said. Some items still have their original price tags. We want things other places don’t have,” she said.

The store accepts contributions by appointment. They insist that everything be clean and in good condition. 

“If it needs cleaning, we usually ask the consignor to take it back and clean it,” Arpey said. Proceeds are shared equally between the consignor and the business.

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Bryn Schokmel Is The New Curator Of The Permanent Collection At The Hyde Museum

Posted onJanuary 16, 2023
Bryn Schockmel, Ph.D., curator of the permanent collection at The Hyde Collection.
Courtesy The Hyde

The Hyde Collection has appointed Bryn Schockmel, Ph.D., as the museum’s new curator of the permanent collection.

Schockmel, a curator specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, comes to The Hyde from the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) and joined the museum staff on Jan. 9.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Schockmel to The Hyde Collection team. A dynamic expert in her field, she is joining The Hyde at an incredibly exciting time as we celebrate the museum’s 60th  anniversary,” said Norman Dascher Jr., CEO. “Dr. Schockmel shares our passion for the mission of The Hyde to maintain a museum for the exhibition of the permanent collection and to promote and cultivate the improvement of the fine arts for the education and benefit of the residents of Glens Falls and vicinity and the general public.

“Through her work at other museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard Art Museums, and The Clark Art Institute, she has applied her academic rigor to bring new insights to art collections that forge interdisciplinary conversations about important topics.”

As curator of the permanent collection, Schockmel will advance the vision of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde by ensuring the 5,000-plus works in the collection advance a greater understanding and appreciation of the museum’s collection among all audiences through research, lecture, and writing. She will plan and execute exhibitions related to the permanent collection.

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Four From Region Get Volunteerism Awards At State Office For Aging Event

Posted onJanuary 16, 2023

The state Office for the Aging recently honored 94 older adults for their volunteerism, including Betsey Kagey and Eugene Merlino of Warren County, and Deborah Beahan and Dale Grinnell of Washington County, as part of its annual Older New Yorkers’ Day celebration.

“The word ‘volunteer’ cannot capture fully the accomplishments of this group of incredible individuals,” OFA Director Greg Olsen said in his remarks at the event. “Older adults impress us all with their commitment to a greater good and a greater cause. You tell the real story of what’s good about people, what’s good about New York. Through your deeds and actions, time and again, you show us how valuable you all are to those you touch, to those you serve, to the families and communities and lives you make better.”

Kagey was an asset to the Warren County Department of Public Health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since moving to Warren County, she has volunteered at the vaccination clinic since the effort began. Prior to the pandemic, Kagey offered her knowledge and services to the Warren County Emergency Preparedness Program. 

Her background in public health and environmental health has provided a sound basis for helping develop public health response plans for potential emergencies like chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives events. She was chair of a Georgia work- group which provided guidance for developing statewide plans for a public health response to a radiation incident.

Merlino has served his community as a planning board member, a town councilman, and town supervisor for the past 15 years, in addition to sitting on the Warren County Board of Supervisors. Among his many accomplishments, the Lake Luzerne Town Complex and Senior Center stands as a testament to Merlino’s devotion to the town and its older adults. 

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‘Urban Agricultural Project’ In Downtown Glens Falls Installs One-Ton Heat Pump

Posted onJanuary 16, 2023
This one-ton heat pump was installed recently at the Lapham & Parks building at 22 Ridge St. It is necessary in order for the indoor farm to begin fertilization and growing produce.
©2023 Saratoga Photographer.com

The City of Glens Falls innovative Urban Agriculture Project reached a key milestone in December when a one-ton heat pump system was installed on the roof of the Lapham & Parks building at 22 Ridge St.

The three-story building houses the city’s indoor hydroponics project that will grow fresh produce.

The farm will produce leafy greens from cilantro to lettuce as part of a state pilot program and,  if economically viable, will seek to be replicated in other regional cities in upstate New York.

The project, funded by a grant from Empire State Development’s Smart Cities Innovation Partnership, has been in the works for more than a year.  

Pooling together contractors and consultants throughout New York, the project is intended to demonstrate the ability of cities to address the problem of “food deserts” by repurposing older, underutilized industrial buildings into farms that supply upstate New York cities and villages with fresh organic produce.

“The arrival of this ultra-efficient heating and cooling system is both a symbolic and substantive leap forward in our efforts to complete the project and start producing,” said Glens Falls Economic Development Director Jeff Flagg.

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