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FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY, Luck Brothers, Inc. has been behind the construction of significant landmarks in the North Country. And now the tight-knit team is leaning into its fifty-second year together as it continues to execute numerous projects. There are two sides to this lucrative company. The Luck Brothers, Inc. side, according to the read more

OVER FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING, THE NEW AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT called Atlas Heights on Montana Drive off of New York Road in Plattsburgh is set to open in July. This new complex will include three apartment buildings, a community building, a tenant storage area and a playground. Forty housing units — offering a mixture read more

SEVEN YEARS AGO, at the Ticonderoga Golf Club annual fund-raising event, members of the Board of Directors agreed that attempts at small annual improvements needed a jump start. The club was losing money every year and annual fund raising of $20,000-$25,000 was not enough to accomplish what needed to be done. Four of the course’s read more

There weren’t any big box stores in the area in 1975 when Barbara Murray opened Champlain Valley Electric Supply. The venture enabled her to fill a void and built a business to satisfy the lighting needs of North Country residents. In her more than 20 years operating the business, she trained her family to carry read more

THE RATE OF CONSTRUCTION IN OUR REGION BODES WELL FOR US ALL. We make many decisions in our lives, but the decision to construct a new facility is one of our most important. It makes statements about our desire to tailor space directly to our needs. It dedicates place to one particular use. And it read more

STARTED IN 1999 AS TECH VALLEY COMMUNICATIONS, FirstLight Fiber quickly established itself by choosing to build out fiber networks when it was not popular to do so. The company expanded across the Northeast and Upstate New York and now has Plattsburgh-based Primelink as one of its most recent acquisitions. FirstLight provides fiber-optic data, Internet, data read more

FOR DECADES, THE SUNY PLATTSBURGH School of Business and Economics (SBE) philosophy has been that learning should be a hands-on experience, especially when it comes to helping future entrepreneurs navigate the messy world of business. One of the most forward-thinking examples of this philosophy can be found in the Business School’s Center for Cybersecurity and read more

RANDY GILTZ, THE THIRD GENERATION of Giltzs at Northern Insuring Agency (NIA), serves as the company’s Senior Vice President. His sister, Deena Giltz McCullough is President and CEO and their father, Rod, is Chairman of the Board. Rod’s father, E. Glenn Giltz was one of three AuSable Forks business men who founded the company in read more

ALMOST A YEAR—IT DOESN’T SEEM POSSIBLE that when we were notified in mid-March that schools would close for a few weeks and non-essential businesses would shutter as many of us moved to remote work, that we would be at this point. A few weeks, even a couple of months were what many of us envisioned—no read more

FOR MORE THAN FIVE YEARS, SENIOR PLANET has been offering North Country residents over 60 the opportunity to learn new things and meet new people. They host social gatherings, offer technology and fitness classes, and even provide a device for people who need one to use for their courses. While the pandemic forced programming to read more