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Governor Cuomo signs into law the bill creating the Environmental Protection Fund in Essex, NY, 1993. Schaefer is third from left. Photo by Gary Randorf. Private collection.

Never Succumb to Complacency: The Instructive, Inspirational Life of Wilderness Advocate Paul Schaefer

Like his mentor, Lake George’s John Apperson, Paul Schaefer mostly eschewed “the white trousers” of the conservation movement. “I’d like to throw some mud on them,” Apperson was wont to say, Schaefer recalled. Unlike the wealthy elites ... Read More
Josh Silver, manager Sean Culligan and bud tender and assistant manager Maddie Anyan, at the Silver’s new cannabis dispensary near the outlet malls in Queensbury.

Josh Silver, Attorney with Local Roots, Opens Cannabis Dispensary Near Lake George Village

This is not the weed you, your father or perhaps even your grandfather purchased in dime bags in Harvard Square or Saint Mark’s Place. “Who knows what they were smoking?” asks Josh Silver, a lawyer and part-time Bolton Landing resident whose ... Read More
Architect’s rendering of the bandshell that will replace the one destroyed by fire in June, 2024. Courtesy AJA Architecture and Planning.

The Rebirth of Shepard Park

120 years after the Lake House hotel was demolished, the park that replaced it is slated to receive some of its most significant upgrades ever. Shepard Park – named in honor of the Brooklyn philanthropist and politician Edward Morse Shepard, whose ... Read More