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The construction of Lake George Village’s first waterfront condominium complex is expected to start in September, on the site where King Neptune’s Pub now stands. According to property owners Sean and Melissa Quirk, the complex, to be known as ... Read More

What does Glens Falls mean to Elizabeth Miller and her son Ben? That’s not a difficult question to answer. Stroll down Park Street, a once-marginal block which, thanks to their investments – financial and otherwise – has become a keystone ... Read More

What causes Harmful Algal Blooms, why they occur with increasing frequency and why some produce toxins and others don’t: these are the questions driving the Jefferson Project this year. “A couple of questions have yet to be addressed, but ... Read More

Sometime in mid-March, I heard the first redwing blackbird of the year, vocalizing from somewhere in a grove of pines and hardwoods that borders our property. Spring has countless ways of reminding us that summer is on its way. For most of us, the ... Read More

Frances Perkins, the godmother of modern America’s social safety net, could be among the first women in 125 years to be nominated for a place on the New York State Capitol’s Million Dollar Staircase. (Governor Kathy Hochul recently told the New ... Read More

If New York is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 85% before 2050, as required by state law, it must reduce food loss and waste by almost as much. Methane from food rotting in landfills, gasses from waste incineration and carbon from trucks ... Read More

In the years since the Lake George Park Commission started its mandatory boat inspection program in 2014, not one of the scores of aquatic invasive species dwelling in other New York lakes and rivers  – round goby, quagga mussel and ... Read More

It’s a new day at Silver Bay. On Lake George but apart from Lake George, or at least perceived as such for much of its 120-year history, Silver Bay YMCA now welcomes its neighbors with open arms. As of November, 2022, residents of Bolton Landing, ... Read More

State legislation that would allow municipalities to tax condominiums at market rates is gaining support among Warren County Supervisors. Under New York’s existing property tax law, condominium owners’ tax bills are based on the unit’s current ... Read More

A New York Supreme Court has invalidated the Adirondack Park Agency’s 2022 approval of the Lake George Park Commission’s plan to treat 7.6 acres of Eurasian milfoil with the herbicide ProcellaCOR. Justice Robert J. Muller ruled March 3 that a ... Read More