Current News

Amy’s Adventure Race for the Lake, an event sponsored by the Lake George Land Conservancy’s Next Generation Committee, will be held this year on Saturday, September 30 at the Conservancy’s Amy’s Park Preserve in North Bolton. The 4.5 ... Read More

Sometime between the end of the Civil War and the start of Spanish American War, Lake George ceased to be an agrarian community and became a fashionable watering hole -a transition captured perfectly in a beautifully restored house in Hague. Not only ... Read More

The amount of chlorides deposited by highway crews in the Lake George watershed has begun to shrink, thanks in part to the growing use of a salty, liquid solution known as brine. The contamination of groundwater, tributaries and ultimately the lake ... Read More

Restored by the same architects who helped refurbish the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls is, against all odds, celebrating its one hundredth anniversary. And, as many had hoped, it is performing a role in Hudson Falls ... Read More

No one is likely to call Andrew Thompson “a sporting artist” – a commercial artist who illustrates hunting, fishing and wildlife books and magazine spreads – but, as he acknowledged in a recent interview, “fish have been a preoccupation of ... Read More

The 1755 Battle of Lake George, which confirmed Britain’s title to the lake and surrounding lands, will be commemorated on September 22, 23 & 24 with re-enactments and an encampment at Lake George Battlefield Park. “I am building a Fort at ... Read More

Endea Owens, in all likelihood the break-out artist of the year, kicks off the 39th annual “Jazz at the Lake” in Shepard Park on Friday, September 15 at 6 pm. Daniel Kelly, the composer and musician who curates the festival, expects her impact ... Read More

Lake George’s drive to honor the many who died at the smallpox hospital at Fort George in the first years of the American Revolution continues to gather momentum. U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer reaffirmed his support for local plans to inter the ... Read More

The Gruskin Group, the multi-disciplinary New Jersey-based design firm whose founder, architect Ken Gruskin, is a lake resident, first sponsored “Jazz at the Lake” in 2009. At the previous year’s festival, organizer and co-founder Paul Pines ... Read More

A painting, rather than an example of the sculpture that made David Smith famous, introduces the visitor to “Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music and Dance,” The Hyde Collection’s sensational exhibition that will close on September 17. A ... Read More