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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

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“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

New Bolton Law Requires Septic System Inspection At Time of Sale

Forty years after banning “any individual sewage disposal system that is unsafe, a source of pollution to surface waters or permits seepage to surface,” the Town of Bolton has approved a measure that will actually enforce that prohibition. On May ... 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

Under New Proposal, Lake Shore Towns Lose Revenues, But Still Pick Up the Bill

Property taxes in lake shore towns would increase “significantly” – perhaps by as much as 30% – if proposals now floated by some Warren County Supervisors were adopted, said Lake George Supervisor Dennis Dickinson. The proposals – to ... 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

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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

Cool It Down

How the Town and Village are Making Lake George Climate Smart, Energy Efficient Intense storms like Florence, once expected to occur every hundred years or so, now arrive with increasing frequency. Irene battered Lake George in 2011. It was the most ... Read More