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Community Store at 5 – Adirondack Daily Enterprise
SARANAC LAKE – Five years after it launched to much fanfare, business continues to be steady at the Saranac Lake Comm...
Small town in New York reveling in new, community-owned department store
In the picturesque town of Saranac Lake in upstate New York, population 5,000, you will find restaurants, an Army Nav...
In Saranac, A Retail Alternative – New York Now on PBS
Saranac Lake, a village of less than 5,000 people, is a popular vacation spot but, despite a vibrant main street, it ...
Saranac Lake Residents Open Their Own Department Store – Adirondack.net
Residents of Saranac Lake, a small community in the Adirondacks with a year-round population of about 5,000, have com...
Editorial: Community Store re-defining image of small town America – Denton Publications
The Ames department store in Saranac Lake closed in 2002, and no matter how hard small shop owners tried to collectiv...
Buying underwear, and the store, in Saranac Lake – Watertown Daily Times
The residents of Saranac Lake are a hardy lot — they have to be to withstand winter temperatures that can drop to 30 ...
Owens Adds to Community Store Accolades – No Country Public Radio
The first-community owned department store in the state offers basic goods - everything from underwear to bedsheets –...
A Town Creates Its Own Department Store – NY Times Sunday Edition
THE residents of Saranac Lake, a picturesque town in the Adirondacks, are a hardy lot — they have to be to withstand ...
Saranac Lake Residents Grow Their Own Community Store – Times Union
Residents of Saranac Lake needed a place to buy underwear. The availability of that retail item -- along with other m...
Storefronts: One Community Store Dies, Another Opens – Times Union
But despite the setback in Troy, supporters of community supported retail have a new reason to cheer: The state’s fir...
The Community Store in Saranac Lake Opens – Plattsburgh Press Republican
After five years of raising capital, the Community Store opens for shoppers today. A summer's worth of renovations ma...