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Maybellene and Ophelia Kelly take a break after participating in the Adirondack Challenge on Sunday, July 19, the state-sponsored event designed to promote tourism in Adirondack Park. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that he plans on doubling the state’s advertising budget to promote upstate attractions.
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Young professionals sound off on issues, challenges facing Adirondack Park By Pete DeMola
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LONG LAKE — While green may be the first thing that comes to mind when people think of the Adirondacks, these trees are streaked with gray. It’s well-established that the Adirondack Park faces a demographic dilemma. The region is expected to experience a 23 percent increase in people 65 and older between 2010 and 2020, a rate 15 percent greater than upstate as a whole. The same amount of young people aren’t replacing
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them. It’s a problem facing rural communities across the nation. But here in the Adirondacks, there are strong undercurrents of youthful activity seeking to reverse the tide — if the ingredients can come together. Last week, officials from virtually every sector from across the Adirondack Park gathered in Long Lake for the Common Ground Alliance, the ninth installment of the forum designed to overlook philosophical differences and come together to try to move the needle forward on sustainable public policy. It’s an approach that has fielded results, say offi-
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cials, most notably when it comes to locking in funding for invasive species. Before the attendees broke off into their work groups, young people sounded off on their hopes, issues and challenges. Ross Whaley, the former Adirondack Park Agency chair who is one of the event’s organizers, hoped their insights would resonate throughout the day as attendees hashed out their proposals and ideas, which would later be condensed into a two-page brief and zipped CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
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INDIAN LAKE — On a tranquil stretch of the Hudson River, the sun burned bright overhead and highlighted a storybook natural landscape. Birds trilled from the surrounding forest as whitecrested whorls broke upon the rocks in the cool slategray water. One after another, rafts of paddlers drifted by. It’s an experience Gov. Andrew Cuomo hopes all state residents will eventually come to appreciate, particularly New York City residents. The governor was in Indian Lake on Sunday for the third installment of an event series designed to draw attention to the Adirondack Park by pitting state lawmakers against each other in a series of athletic events — including whitewater rafting. As he suited up for his trip down the river, Cuomo asked reporters if they knew where the Hudson River originated. Mount Marcy in Keene, an alpine town some 300 miles north of New York City. “You can stay in a raft and end up in 96th Street in Manhattan,” Cuomo said. Originally billed as a race, the three-mile rafting trip down the Hudson is more of a tightly choreographed water ballet, with guides launching dignitary-filled rafts every minute down the sedate three-mile stretch.
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