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Today's regional business news.
The Adirondack Thunder hockey team has called off its 2020-2021 season the Post-Start is reporting this morning. Team management recognizes how much this will affect the hospitality industry in the area. The team along with the ECHL, announced the cancellation saying the decision is a result of COVID-19 restrictions that allow too few fans to buy tickets.
Architecture, Engineering and Development
Glens Falls has entered into a $2.4 million three-year contract to repair and maintain its water towers, the Post-Star is reporting. The work will improve the water quality to residents, the paper reports.
New York State's Public Service Commission is accusing Charter Communications, owner of the Spectrum cable brand, of inflating the number of users it has reached in hard-to-reach areas of the Adirondacks, the Times-Union reports this morning. The company is required to reach a total of 145,000 customers in the Adirondack and Catskill parks. The commission is demading review of the total count. This story stems from an Adirondack Explorer report that said people were paying for access that should have been built for free, the paper writes.
Arts and Culture
The Essex County Arts Council has awarded five small grants to north country artisans, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting this morning. A choreographer, a banjo maker, a bamboo fly rod maker, and a painter won awards up to $500, the paper reports. They live and work throughout the Adirondacks, but the painter, Susan Hoffer, will show her work at the Lake George Arts Project, 1 Amherst Street Lake George, NY, Jan. 16 to Feb. 19, 2021.
Human Resources and Employees
According to a story in the Washington Post yesterday, about 12 million Americans will lose unemployment benefits by the end of the year. Researchers are calling it a "benefit cliff" that falls from underneath people when a part of the Cares Act, enacted last March, expires on Dec. 26, the day after Christmas. Gig workers and people receiving a benefit that extended regular unemployment, an additional 11.9 million people, will be removed from the roll, the paper says.