Current News

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

Warren County collected $89,732.32 in occupancy taxes from owners of short-term rentals between January and June 2022 – a 34% increase over the same six-month period in 2021. Dan Barusch, Lake George’s Director of Planning and Zoning, said the ... Read More

Up Yonda Farm, Warren County’s Environmental Education Center in Bolton Landing, has been added to the New York State Birding Trail, Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos has announced. According to the Department of Environmental ... Read More

The United States National Championships for J-24s, a popular class of one-design racing sailboats, will be held on Lake George this year. The Lake George Club will host the races May 17-21. This will be the first time hosting the J-24 Nationals for ... Read More

What do Great Camp Sagamore on Raquette Lake and the Sagamore hotel on Lake George have in common, other than their names? One was built in 1897 by William West Durant, the father of rustic architecture, as a year-round home for himself, which he ... Read More

More than 265 years ago, in March, 1757, Fort William Henry was attacked by 1,500 French regulars, Canadians and Native Americans, “which, for America, should be regarded as a real army,” a contemporary witness noted in his journals. ... Read More

Day use permits for campsites and docks on Lake George’s state-owned islands may be reserved and purchased online as of this spring, the Department of Environmental Conservation has announced. In past years, permits could be acquired only by ... Read More

Warren County will resume Occupancy Tax bonus payments to localities in 2023, the Board of Supervisors decided by a weighted vote on February 17. “We want to re-institute the spending plan as it was in 2020,” said Lake George Supervisor Dennis ... Read More

Jeffrey M. Killeen, the former president of The Fund for Lake George who helped negotiate the organization’s merger with the Lake George Association and became the new LGA’s first chairman, passed away on December 14 after a protracted illness. ... Read More

The Hyde Collection’s 60th anniversary year will see “our most ambitious offering of exhibitions in years,” John Lefner, The Hyde’s incoming CEO told the large crowd gathering in the museum’s interior courtyard on January 27. The opening of ... Read More