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January 18, 2020
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Cuomo’s 2020 budget adds tax cuts for small business, small farms Sen. Little honored; longestserving GOP member of legislature By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
ELIZABETHTOWN | In his State of the State and Executive Budget address last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined several measures to small business cut taxes. “The state now enjoys its lowest corporate income tax rate since 1967 at 6.5 percent,” his budget plan says. “The state also has its lowest manufacturers’ tax rate since 1917, helping to ensure that New York businesses remain competitive, fueling the private sector innovation and investment that lead to job growth.” To sustain economic growth, Cuomo wants to cut tax rates for small corporate taxpayers. Specifically, the Executive Budget wants to: -- Reduce tax rates for companies with less than 100 employees and less than $390,000 in income from 6.5 percent to 4 percent, a measure that would affect an estimated 36,000 taxpayers. -- Triple the current Income Exclusion for farmers and sole proprietors: Current tax law allows sole proprietors and farmers who file under the Personal Income Tax and have less than $250,000 in net business income or net farm income to reduce their Adjusted Gross Income by five percent of such income. The Governor proposes to triple this benefit. See STATE OF THE STATE » pg. 2
Generous Acts grants available Generous Acts funding from Adirondack Foundation helped to support an effective summer literacy program in Brant Lake. Photo by Erika Bailey
Funds for community improvement
The application is available online until 5 p.m., on Feb. 3. Last year,
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Generous Acts is a growing resource that positions us to respond to pressing community needs, identify trends, connect disparate programs with each other, and share information about funding opportunities within our network of supporters,” — Foundation President and CEO Cali Brooks
By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
L AKE PL ACID | The Adirondack Foundation, a Lake Placid organization whose mission is to enhance the lives of people in the Adirondacks through philanthropy, has opened applications for the 2020 Generous Acts grants. Grants typically fund programs that improve a community’s health, economy or education.
$300,000. In addition, the Adirondack Foundation shares applications with
Generous Acts funded 71 applications for a total of $200,000 in grants. This year, the foundation expects to award
other donors, who can step in and make awards on their own. See GENEROUS ACTS GRANTS » pg. 2
Earthquake rattles border towns Columbia University. Rattling was felt by Sun Community News reporter Tim Rowland in Jay. “There were three or four lamps rattling at around 5:30 a.m., and I was blaming the cat — until I remembered we only have one cat. Dogs were very agitated, too,” he said via email. The shook some homes in Lake Placid, Plattsburgh and in Keene Valley, according to USGS citizen reports, and was felt as a rumbling in the border community at Cornwall. It is the second small earthquake to strike the North Country region in a week. A smaller quake, magnitude 1.2, shook northwest of Warrensburg at around 9:22 a.m. on Jan. 7. ■
Magnitude 3.3 centered north of border By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
Officials hope a ‘robust’ shuttle system will cut down on illegal parking in Keene Valley.
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BUSES WILL FERRY HIKERS Summer shuttle operated by Essex County By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
ELIZABETHTOWN | Fewer hikers might wind up parking in the yards of Keene Valley residents because of a planned shuttle system that will bus hikers from Marcy Field to all popular Route 73 trailheads.
The plan was announced last week by the Essex County Board of Supervisors, who will administer the operation as part of their existing transit system. The state Department of Environmental Services will pay $1.2 million for the purchase of four, 24-passenger buses and the cost of operation, including eight drivers, said Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Shaun Gillilland. The buses will operate 16 hours a day and pass every popular trailhead every 30 minutes. “We don’t want to make it a weak-sister program,” he said. “If it says ‘’Essex County’ on the side of the bus, we want it to be robust.”
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The long hours of operation are a key, he said, because many hikers don’t emerge from the trails until late in the day. “It will provide service long enough that we won’t be leaving hikers in the woods,” Gillilland said. As use of High Peaks trails has increased, trailhead parking lots have spilled over and hikers have increasingly parked along the side of the road, in private neighborhoods and even on private property. Last summer the state prohibited roadside parking along four miles of Rt. 73, which caused some problems of its own.
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U.S. Geological Survey recorded a 3.3 magnitude temblor early M o n d a y morning, Jan. 13. Rattling was reportedly felt in Plattsburgh and Keene Valley. The quake was centered just nor th of the Canadian border near Ormstown, Quebec. Map/U.S. Geological Survey
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JAY |A small earthquake rattled parts of the northern Adirondack region at 5:38 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) measured the quake at 3.3 on the Richter Scale, 10 kilometers south of Ormstown, Quebec, just on the U.S.Canadian border. The quake occurred at a depth of 6.6 miles as measured by the LamontDherty Earth Observatory of
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