{"id":5053,"date":"2011-11-13T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T13:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:43:41","slug":"saranac-lake-community-store-profiled-in-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/11\/13\/saranac-lake-community-store-profiled-in-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Saranac Lake community store profiled in NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times ran a big, glowing treatment<\/a> of the new Community Store in Saranac Lake yesterday, describing the project as the retail equivalent of the Green Bay Packers.\u00a0 (For non-football fans, that’s a good thing…)<\/p>\n

Here’s a taste.<\/p>\n

\u201cOoh, that\u2019s nice,\u201d said Pat Brown, as she held up a slim black skirt (price: $29.99). She and her husband, Bob, a former professor of sociology at a local community college, live in town in an early 1900s home furnished with deer heads and other mementos from Bob\u2019s hunting trips.<\/p>\n

The couple \u2014 who were voted king and queen of the village\u2019s annual Winter Carnival in 1999 \u2014 bought $2,000 worth of shares in the store early on, and later bought a few more during a fund-raising drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a long process for all of us. We\u2019re very proud to have it finally become a reality,\u201d Ms. Brown said. Her husband, a vigorous-looking man who had a neatly trimmed white beard and was wearing a cowboy hat, added, \u201cThis is a small town trying to help itself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article puts the store’s development in the context of the debate over Wal-Mart and Occupy Wall Street.<\/p>\n

The Saranac Lake Community Store is the first in New York State, its organizers say, and communities in states from Maine to Vermont are watching it closely.<\/p>\n

Indeed, community ownership seems to resonate in these days of protest and unrest, when frustration with Wall Street, corporate America and a system seemingly rigged against the little guy is running high. But rather than simply grouse, some people are creating alternatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think?\u00a0 Is the Community Store a statement, a convenient place to buy underwear, both, neither?\u00a0 Comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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