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LAKE PLACID | The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST) has been notably successful getting people to come to the Adirondacks to play; now it’s planning a campaign to get people to come to the Adirondacks to work.

In a way, it’s a variation on the tourism theme, because, said Mary Jane Lawrence, ROOST’s

chief operating officer at a May videoconference, “we can tell them all the things there are to do while working in the Adirondacks.”

The labor shortage is not peculiar to the Adirondacks, but there are a couple of elements that make it worse across the park. There is a desperate need for service-industry jobs, but even though wages have increased, they still tend to be toward the bottom of the pay scale, and do not support the cost of Adirondack living.

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