Archives Archive - Page 11 of 12

Making the Vision of Bolton as a Recreation Hub a Reality

To put into action the new Bolton Recreation Hub Strategy, it will take everyone in the community, including or perhaps especially those in their twenties and thirties who support the Lake George Land Conservancy’s NextGeneration Committee. That ... Read More

The Trails of the Adirondacks: Hiking America’s Original Wilderness

National Trails Day, celebrated on Lake George by the Lake George Land Conservancy, fell this year on June 1. (To honor Trails Day, a nationally coordinated event created to entice people at all levels of fitness into the outdoors, ... Read More

Ticonderoga’s Moses Ludington: Affiliation with UVM Network Creates Model for Sustainable Health Care

Making the transition from a one hundred year old community hospital nearing obsolescence to a state-wide model of sustainable health care is not only a lengthy and expensive process but a courageous one, says John Remillard, the president of ... Read More

Lake George Park Commission Awarded Funds to Eliminate Worst Milfoil Beds

With more money, more hands and more time, more Milfoil will be harvested from Lake George this summer than in either of the two previous years. “It will be big, big effort this summer,” said Pat Dowd, the communications director of the Lake ... Read More

Landscapes Lost and Found: Two Centuries of Art from Bolton Landing

Mirror Choice

“Landscapes Lost and Found: Two Centuries of Art from Bolton Landing” opens at the Bolton Historical Museum on May 25 and will remain on view through Columbus Day. Above David Smith, Untitled, 1936. Co-incidentally, it is one of ... Read More

Conflict Management and Resolution on Lake George

Regulations, judgement, compromise, education and, when necessary, legal action, are all parts of the toolkit Given its size, Lake George can, in theory, comfortably accommodate 4,500 boats at any given time; but even at peak times, a ... Read More

Fort George Park Will be Final Resting Place of Bones Discovered at Village Construction Site

Who – and What – Made El Lagarto the Fastest Boat in America?

Jon Bowers, grandson of Reis’ racing partner Anderson Bowers, Searches for Answers No two men could have been more unlike the other. One fastidious, the other extravagant. One looked like a movie star, the other yearned to be one. What united them ... Read More

Rural Medicine’s Next Big Thing

Hudson Headwater Health Network’s new emphasis on palliative care and hospice care is in many ways a return to an old fashioned “art of medicine” “It feels good to be a pioneer – once again,” says Dr. John Rugge, ... Read More

To Create a Park

Mirror Choice

Fifty Years After the Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks was formed, historians assess its significance and its role in the creation of a unified Adirondack Park Phil Terrie, the historian of the Adirondacks whose volume of ... Read More