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The Lake George Land Conservancy has been awarded a $350,000 grant to defray the costs of a conservation easement across 47 wooded  acres overlooking the Wiawaka Center for Women, which will retain title to the property. The grant, which will be ... Read More

Senator Ron Stafford, the Plattsburgh Republican who dominated North Country politics for more than forty years, was among the legislators who opposed the creation of the Adirondack Park Agency in 1971. A bill he sponsored in 1977 to abolish the new ... Read More

“We now have new opportunities to recruit physicians,” says Sean Philpott-Jones, Hudson Headwaters Health Network’s Vice President for Government Relations and Grants Management. According to Philpott-Jones, a federal program that enables the ... Read More

The 750-mile Empire State Trail, America’s largest bike path, lies just beyond the reach of Lake George’s residents and visitors. A $160,000 grant from the Northern Border Regional Commission, announced on August 24 by Senators Schumer and ... Read More

Lake George Village’s new wastewater treatment plant is functioning as it should, preventing pollutants from reaching Lake George. “The results speak for themselves,” Lake George Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky said at the ribbon cutting ceremony at ... Read More

Paul Nasrani, the founder of the Adirondack Creamery ice cream company, believes in the positive powers of ice cream. The civic mission of his company is, as he says, “to promote the idea that food – even or especially ice cream – can bridge ... Read More

El Lagarto, Lake George’s three-time Gold Cup winner, now on permanent display at the Adirondack Experience museum in Blue Mountain Lake, is one hundred years old this year. To commemorate the centenary, Lisa Reis, a granddaughter of George Reis, ... Read More

It takes a village… to protect a lake. Or at least one particular village, on one particular lake. To prevent pollutants from reaching Lake George, the Village of Lake George has invested roughly $500,000 in a multi-purpose mobile unit that ... Read More

Best known for promoting the recreational use of the Adirondack Forest Preserve, the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) has also been, at times at least, an influential advocate for preserving portions of the Adirondacks as wilderness, from which all ... Read More

Rock, bronze, steel, the detritus of industrialization, colors from nature and from art’s historical palette – these are the elements that, once, assembled, become a sculpture by John Van Alstine. Or, rather, once transformed. ... Read More