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Its evocative place-based name notwithstanding, there is nothing narrowly regional – that is, parochial –  about the Adirondack Theatre Festival. “The Adirondack Theatre Festival has a history, not only of participating in ... Read More

If you never met Jon Cody, this memoir by Christopher Shaw will make you wish you had. Or perhaps not. A skilled craftsman and enterprising retailer and antique trader, Cody was also a drug dealer, an arsonist, a gunslinger, a rake.  He ... Read More

Pete Seeger, who died in 2014 at the age of 94 and whose music inspirited popular crusades for civil, labor and women’s rights, environmental conservation and peace, would, by any definition, be considered a public citizen. As it ... Read More

Food Network’s “Summer Rush” followed the Foys, the Bolton Landing family that owns three distinctly different restaurants, through a busy, pre-pandemic summer season.  That 2020 reality show now has a successor. Foy Rush, ... Read More

Hudson Headwaters Health Network has been awarded a $1.5 million grant to renovate one of its 21 local health centers.   The American Rescue Plan, signed into law in March,  included funds for “major health care construction and ... Read More

Music teachers from across the Adirondacks assembled at Ticonderoga High School over the course of two October weekends to hone their skills in repairing and maintaining brass and woodwind instruments, courtesy of an expanding Beinstrumental ... Read More

The Lake George Land Conservancy, the Bolton Landing Chamber of Commerce  and the Town of Bolton celebrated the expanded and improved Pinnacle Preserve with a  ribbon cutting ceremony on October 5.  A vigorous partnership between the Lake George ... Read More

Twenty five years ago, while vacationing with my wife at rustic Elk Lake Lodge, a fellow guest remarked that his plans to spend his final day in the Adirondacks bagging one more peak had changed; instead, he would  visit downtown North ... Read More

Other than attending the National Governors’ Conference at Bolton Landing’s Sagamore hotel in 1954, Richard Nixon did not, so far as I know, ever visit the Adirondacks.  Yet he was recently ranked the second most environmentally progressive ... Read More

Work is already under way on a game-changing winter attraction that’s expected to make Lake George a bona fide year-round destination, while dazzling visitors with its amazing display of creativity and imagination. Local officials welcomed Ice ... Read More