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Hudson Headwaters Health Network anticipates “an uptick” in the numbers of  North Country residents with COVID-19 within the next two weeks,  Dr. Tucker Slingerland, the Network’s president and CEO, said March 27. The ... Read More

Hal Burton. Arthur Draper. James Goodwin. These figures, each one an Adirondack legend, opened the area to winter skiing, from the backcountry ski trail on Wright Peak to the first downhill runs at Whiteface.  Not coincidentally, all three were ... Read More

In 2025, the Ticonderoga Golf Course will be one hundred years old. Established as a country club by International Paper for the use of its managers and their families, and to induce more families to move to Ticonderoga, it was a gathering place for ... Read More

“Spring is a time for the renewal of life,” wrote Rachel Carson in “The Sea Around Us,” a book published ten years before her more famous “Silent Spring.” As Carson observed (both beautifully and precisely), “Spring moves over the ... Read More

Reaffirming the many connections between the Hudson Headwaters Health Network’s  Bolton Health Center and Dr. Leonard Busman (after whom the health center is formally named), a plaque was installed in the building’s foyer over the ... Read More

Queen Boat Company,  for many years the site of the Howards’ Dunhams Bay Sea Ray dealership and before that, Donald Pensel’s marina, has won approvals to  complete the renovations of its building and expand its fleet of ... Read More

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

Best known as a YMCA conference center whose outreach to nearby communities extends to children, teens and families in need – including those suffering from cancer – Silver Bay is also a model for environmental stewardship. Its new “green” ... Read More

Like many if not most small towns in the Adirondacks, Bolton faces a future without a volunteer-based Emergency Medical Services organization. The ranks of volunteers are aging and thinning. To compensate for its lack of volunteers, Bolton’s EMS ... Read More

Though by far the best known, Seneca Ray Stoddard is not the only commercial photographer to have aimed his lens at Lake George. In fact, two of them, Jule Thatcher (1856-1934) and J.S. Wooley (1867-1943) were employees and students of Stoddard. And ... Read More