Current News

After five hundred hours and twelve days on Lake George, surveying more than 16 miles of shoreline, state and local experts on invasive forest pests have concluded that an infestation of Hemlock Wooly Adelgid detected in August is a limited one and ... Read More

In 2026, the US will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That year, the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History will unveil a new display interpreting the 54-foot 1776 gunboat Philadelphia, ... Read More

Thanks in large part to the Jefferson Project, whose mixture of science, technology and environmental advocacy has made Lake George “the world’s smartest lake,” Lake George is also known as “a hope spot,” a model for other fresh water ... Read More

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, or HWA, as the invasive aphid-like insect is called, has been found in a stand of eastern hemlocks on Forest Preserve lands on the eastern shore of Lake George, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation ... Read More

Health care professionals consider pooled testing a promising strategy for accelerating the  screening of local populations for COVID-19. “Pooled testing – screening several patients at once rather than individually – has the ... Read More

In the spring of 1879, a summer resident of Lake George named Nathaniel Holmes Bishop, who had walked across South America when he was seventeen and whose account of a voyage in a paper canoe from Troy, New York to the Gulf of Mexico was judged by ... Read More

Emerald Ash Borer, a small but destructive Asian beetle that infests and kills native Ash trees, has been found in southeastern Warren County. The discovery, which was reported by Warren County and New York State Department of Environmental ... Read More

Warren County’s Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution calling upon the Adirondack Park Agency to relax its policies  requiring towers to be “substantially invisible” and to permit towers  ten to twenty ... Read More

In 2018 (the last full year for which statistics are available),  521 Warren County residents entered facilities to be treated for addiction to heroin and pain medications. Within that same year, Warren County documented 10 deaths, 40 trips ... Read More

Laura Von Rosk, an artist and curator,  and her husband, Dr. Sam Bowser, a research scientist specializing in the physiological ecology and evolution of single-cell organisms, have more than enough interests and accomplishments for an ... Read More