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A new law will go into effect this month requiring owners and operators of motorboats to verify they have no invasive species present before launching in Adirondack waters. Clean, drain, dry, verify! It’s the law. #Adirondacks

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National Dairy Month: June 2022 JUNE 2022 RELEASE NUMBER CB22-SFS.80 From the International Dairy Foods Association: “National Dairy Month started out as National Milk Month in 1937 as a way to promote drinking milk. It was initially created to stabilize the dairy demand when production was at a surplus, but has now developed into an annual tradition that celebrates the contributions the dairy industry has made to the world. After the National Dairy Council stepped in to promote the cause, the name soon

Source: National Dairy Month: June 2022

By Robert St.John

President, Rouses Point-Champlain Historical Society 

June 7^th – 6:00 pm 

House of Prayer, 63 Broad Street, Plattsburgh

The Clinton County Historical Association is proud to sponsor a presentation on one of the quirkier stories in Clinton County’s business history, that of the Perry Mills Frog Farm.  Founded in 1937 by Emil R. Neuenfeldt and located on the bank of the Great Chazy River, Neuenfeldt’s farm supplied frogs to restaurants around the country and, increasingly as time went on, to hospitals and schools for laboratory and educational use. Between 1937 and 1962, it was one of the largest industries in that village. The history will be told by Robert St.John, President of the Rouses Point-Champlain Historical Society who owns the former frog farm property and has stories to tell about how the frog farm came to be and how it operated. The presentation will be held June 7^th at 6 pm at the House of Prayer, 63 Broad Street, Plattsburgh. It is free and open to the public with donations appreciated.

Click here for a 1994 Calvin Castine – Bob Venne story on the Frog Pond 

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Source: The 2022 Albany Power 100 – City & State New York

Workforce Participation Near Pre-Pandemic Levels, But Unemployment Still High

More Than a Third of Unemployed Workers Out of Work for 27+ Weeks

New York City lags behind the rest of the state and nation in regaining the jobs lost from the onset of the pandemic in March and April 2020, according to an analysis on the city’s labor force released by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today. By March 2022, the city recovered just under 71% of jobs lost, while the rest of New York state has regained 82% of jobs. By April 2022, the United States had regained 95%.

The city’s unemployment rate remains substantially higher than the rest of the state and nation and higher than its pre-pandemic rate. The slow recovery of pandemic job losses has left the city with an unemployment rate of 6.5%, 2.8 points higher than the February 2020 level of 3.7%, while the nation’s unemployment rate is only one-tenth of a point above its February 2020 level of 3.5%. The remainder of the state reached its February 2020 rate of 4% by October 2021.

“New York City suffered heavy job losses from the shock of the pandemic shutting down many businesses in early 2020, and it has not fully regained these jobs,” DiNapoli said. “The recovery is also uneven and unequal among the workforce, particularly with demographic groups and lower income workers. The pandemic intensified pre-existing inequities that left many unable to work. These issues are complex and will not be easily fixed. They warrant further study and require strong workforce development efforts to assist those disproportionally impacted by the pandemic that might take longer to recover.”

About 36% of unemployed workers living in the city have been seeking work for longer than 27 weeks and are considered long-term unemployed. While the gap in the long-term unemployed share of job seekers between the city and the nation was largest one year after the onset of the pandemic in March 2021 (69% in the city versus 43% in the nation), it is still sizeable two years later (36% in the city versus 24% in the nation). Over the course of the pandemic, many people also left the workforce. DiNapoli’s report found that some demographic groups rebounded to pre-pandemic levels of labor force participation by 2021, while other groups have not yet fully returned.

Major findings of DiNapoli’s report: Read more »