{"id":13688,"date":"2013-12-15T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=13688"},"modified":"2013-12-15T18:05:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:05:36","slug":"cuomo-celebrated-in-saranac-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/12\/15\/cuomo-celebrated-in-saranac-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo celebrated in Saranac Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13689\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/cuomohatrick1-mark-kurtz.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13689\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13689\" alt=\"North Country REDC 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/cuomohatrick1-mark-kurtz-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/cuomohatrick1-mark-kurtz-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/cuomohatrick1-mark-kurtz-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/cuomohatrick1-mark-kurtz-450x299.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/cuomohatrick1-mark-kurtz.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Mark Kurtz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Governor Andrew Cuomo was welcomed with repeated ovations Sunday afternoon as he visited a local restaurant in Saranac Lake to talk about the North Country&#8217;s latest win in the Regional Economic Development Council competition.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo noted that the North Country is the only region in the state to be a top-plan winner three years in a row, meaning that rural communities in the area have received more than $270 million in state funding.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo was described as &#8220;Santa Claus&#8221; by Saranac Lake Mayor Clyde Rabideau, who said that funding to shore up the economic fortunes of Trudeau Institute and develop two hotel projects was &#8220;beyond transformational.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event at the Downhill Grill restaurant was packed with local residents and economic development officials and politicians from as far away as Potsdam, Plattsburgh, and Hamilton County.<\/p>\n<p>NCPR will have more on this story Monday morning during Morning Edition and the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Andrew Cuomo was welcomed with repeated ovations Sunday afternoon as he visited a local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13688\/revisions\/13691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}