Retail and eCommerce
Lake George Village is ready, and hoping for, the influx of visitors this weekend, a story in the Post-Star says. Signs point to a strong weekend the story says.
Manufacturing, Agriculture and Forestry
Also in the Post-Star, Kilcoyne Farms is looking to build a slaughterhouse at the Airport Industrial Park in Queensbury. Not only will it serve its own beef operations, it will process meat from other area farms and train staff in whole animal butchery, the story says.
Unfair import quotas levied by Canada have the Biden Administration pushing back, with the support of New York farmers, a story in Times-Union reports. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representatives claims Canada is applying tariffs and quotas on 14 of the most popular dairy products improperly, the story says. It’s the first dispute between the countries under the USMCA which should have allowed for more milk products to flow north, the story says.
Entertainment and Sports
“Back to the Future” is back from the past, a story in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting. The second film in the three-part franchise from the 1980s is playing at a make-shift drive-in theatre, the story says. A popular brainchild of Good Guy Productions last summer during the pandemic, the drive-in screen, which is broken down and reassembled in various locations, is back for a summer run starting this weekend, the story says.
The Palace Theatre in Albany will be back up and running after a dormant year, the Albany Business Journal is reporting. The focus is on programming--the live shows--and getting an audience inside, leaders of the nonprofit say in the story. They plan to hire back people who were laid off but also plan a job fair to recruit. The Executive Director, who was laid off, is not coming back, yet.