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Clean Water Safe Roads
Reducing Road Salt -
Nourishing Our Neighbors
Food Security for All -
Pollinator Conservation
Adirondack Pollinator Project -
Universal Access
Broadband for All -
Community Vitality
Creative Placemaking
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Reducing Road Salt
Clean Water Safe Roads -
Nourishing Our Neighbors
Food Security for All -
Pollinator Conservation
Adirondack Pollinator Project -
Regenerating Soils
Composting -
Universal Access
Broadband for All -
Community Vitality
Creative Placemaking
What’s New
Housing
Opening Doors: Turning Short-Term Rentals into Long-Term Homes
April 20, 2026
When a lakeside short-term rental in Essex became a year-round home, it offered more than just stability for one property owner. It opened the door for a local family to put down roots. This story highlights how small shifts in how we use existing housing can ease the Adirondacks’ housing crunch, strengthen communities, and create lasting connections between neighbors.
Reducing Road Salt
Winter Isn’t Over for Everyone: Inside AdkAction’s End-of-Season Road Salt Workshops
April 28, 2026
For many of us in the Adirondacks, winter is behind us. Snow shovels are (mostly) put away, gardens are starting to take shape, and thoughts are turning to warmer days. But for the people responsible for keeping our roads safe, the recent winter is still very much alive. At AdkAction’s
Pollinator Conservation
A New Life for Old Landfills
May 10, 2026
Volunteers invited to help plant 5,500 native plants on June 20 What was once a closed landfill in the Town of Indian Lake is being reimagined as something entirely new: a thriving, eight-acre pollinator meadow filled with native plants, buzzing
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