{"id":4015,"date":"2011-04-01T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2011-04-01T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:28:38","slug":"big-growth-for-adirondack-parks-biggest-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/01\/big-growth-for-adirondack-parks-biggest-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Big growth for Adirondack Park&#8217;s biggest community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div>One of the fiercest debates in the Adirondacks &#8212; and here on the In Box &#8212; is the direction and momentum of population change in the Park.<\/div>\n<div>We reported March 25th <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/25\/morning-read-north-country-sees-shifts-in-population-no-overall-decline\/\">on overall population trends in the North Country<\/a>.\u00a0 Now Saranac Lake Village Mayor Clyde Rabideau is trumpeting growth in his community over the last decade.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: black;\">Preliminary<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: black;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: black;\">2010 US  Census figures are in and the Village of Saranac Lake head count  increased by 358 people, or 7.2%, for a total population of 5,406.\u00a0\u00a0 The  2000 census had \u201cThe Capital of the Adirondacks\u201d population at 5,041.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>In a statement released this week, Rabideau trumpeted the growth:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: black;\">\u201cWhile many  worried about a declining population in the Adirondack Park&#8211;as growth  in the rest of the state was anemic\u2014Saranac Lake experienced a solid and  sustainable gain over the last decade, which means our village must be  doing something right to attract this kind of expansion.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: black;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: black;\">The mayor also said that the population increase might translate into \u201cmore political clout and more leverage for grants and funding.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>So what do you think?\u00a0 What does it mean that Saranac Lake village is growing at a pace three times that of New York state as a whole?<\/div>\n<div>Compared with the situation in Hamilton County, which lost 10% of its population, this number is certainly noteworthy.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: black;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: #2a2a2a;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fiercest debates in the Adirondacks &#8212; and here on the In Box [&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":[22,10,5664],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015"}],"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=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}