{"id":2313,"date":"2010-07-01T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T11:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2010-07-01T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T11:52:01","slug":"when-the-lights-go-out-in-port-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/07\/01\/when-the-lights-go-out-in-port-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"When the lights go out in Port Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my son Nicholas and I drove into Port Henry to buy groceries and gas.\u00a0 Turning the corner, we saw something troubling:\u00a0 the local Aubuchons &#8212; where we go regularly for essentials &#8212; was closed, with brown paper plastered over the windows.<\/p>\n<p>As we walked through town, people were buzzing:\u00a0 the store had been abruptly closed that morning.\u00a0\u00a0 More jobs lost, fewer services available, another gap in another downtown retail street in the North Country.<\/p>\n<p>Lohr McKinstry reported on the closure<a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1385495781\/Port-Henry-hardware-store-out-of-business\"> this morning in the Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Port Henry Mayor Ernest Guerin said the closing is devastating to the  community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It keeps business local, and it fills a good niche in our hamlet,&#8221; he  said of Aubuchon.<\/p>\n<p>As for the store&#8217;s employees, Guerin said their job loss deeply affects  the community, where &#8220;everybody knows everybody.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In cities and suburbs, businesses turn over all the time, coming and going as part of the natural business cycle.\u00a0 But in villages like Port Henry, this kind of loss deepens fears of an more painful and stubborn decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my son Nicholas and I drove into Port Henry to buy groceries and gas.\u00a0 [&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\/2313"}],"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=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}