Today's regional business news.
Healthcare and Fitness
Southern Adirondack Independent Living and Driscoll Foods will package 285 Thanksgiving meals for area residents in order to keep them from entering stores and exposing themselves to COVID, a story in the Post-Star reports this morning. SAIL of Queensbury helps people with disabilities live independently, and therefore some of those they help are at higher risk for the disease.
Government, Law and Legal Services
Franklin County's various local economic organizations are rebranding and coming under one name: Franklin County Economic Development Corporation, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting. Three agencies--Industrial Development Agency, Local Development Corporation and Civic Development Corporation--will combine using the new slogan: Adirondack Frontier.
Education and Training
Corinth schools are delaying a vote on a $12 million renovation of the middle and high schools in order to communicate the need for the expenditure more fully with the community, a story in the Post-Star this morning says. The vote will move from December to February.
Travel, Tourism and Recreation
Saratoga's First Night New Year's Eve celebration has been cancelled, the Saratogian is reporting. This would have been the 25th anniversay of the event. The pandemic's health risks and the lack of funds due to the pandemic's effects on the local enonomy were reasons to halt the festivities, the story says.
Along a similar vein, Christmas in the Forks (Ausable Forks) is on, but scaled back, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports. Parades and the official tree lighting ceremony are cancelled, but a tour is planned, and the decorations contest is still on, the paper says.