February, 2023
By Joel Wood At the beginning of January, our friends at the New York Association of Training and Employment Professionals (NYATEP) released their 2022 State of the Workforce report. Each year we look forward to reading their thorough report and this year was no different. The report detailed a lot of what we already know read more
February, 2023
By Ahren Von Schnell | Photos Supplied by the Clinton County Historical Museum The Plattsburgh Y.M.C.A. has been strengthening bodies, minds, and community for nearly one hundred fifty years. This is altogether fitting for an offshoot of an international organization which had, as its original mandate, the mission of protecting and cultivating these virtues in read more
February, 2023
By Nick Southwick | Photos Supplied by the Clinton County Historical Museum For over 175 years the walls of Dannemora Prison, now Clinton Correctional Facility, have towered over the village of Dannemora, New York offering both a source of employment for locals and a place to hold some of the country’s most notorious criminals. The read more
February, 2023
By Rachel Dutil | Photos Supplied In the early years of the 20th century, Wilbur Egglefield, a carpenter in the Keene area of Essex County, New York, purchased Ford vehicles to help transport construction materials. As each job was completed, he would sell the vehicles. In 1910, he decided to turn selling vehicles into a read more
February, 2023
Time provides perspective. Alan B. Booth, a longtime resident of Plattsburgh, NY and the former owner of Booth Insurance, values both the business and the personal lessons that come with time. In 2018, Strictly Business featured Booth Insurance, founded by Alan’s grandfather, Harry Booth, as it reached its 100th year in business. After two years read more
February, 2023
By Daniel Ladue | Photos Supplied by the Clinton County Historical Museum “Thousands Attend Opening Day at the Municipal Beach,” read the headlines in the Plattsburgh Daily Republican on August 13, 1928. The entire stretch of beach, from its western end at Scomotion Creek to its eastern extremity near Cumberland Head, was packed with more read more
February, 2023
By Chris Chamers & Mary Carpenter A foundry is a factory where castings are produced by melting metal, pouring the resulting liquid into a mold and then allowing it to solidify. It is a process that dates back more than 4,000 years. The American iron foundry was born of necessity. In the mid-1600s there was read more
February, 2023
By Herb Carpenter The North Country has an amazing history – from the Algonquian and Iroquoian tribes, to the Battle of Valcour Island during the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Plattsburgh in the War of 1812, to the arrival of the Army in the early 20th century, the departure of the Air Force in the read more
February, 2023
“Each year I look forward to the Strictly Business Forum. It is a morning of conversation with representatives from every segment of our economy — the ones making the decisions that will shape our future. The participants are always insightful, enthusiastic and surprisingly candid.” -Herb Carpenter, Publisher
February, 2023
Moderator: Carol Blakeslee-Collin | Photos by Ty Kretser A distinguished group of community and business leaders with extensive experience in business development, government, human resources, finance, publishing, and technology, gathered for a morning conversation at the 33rd annual Strictly Business Forum. Their passion for their work and love of the area showed through their comments read more
