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Skidmore College’s reach extends beyond Saratoga Springs into the Adirondacks. Thanks to Evan Mack, a Skidmore professor, composer and Ticonderoga resident, local students are now able to study remotely with Skidmore music faculty. Mack, who ... Read More

Lurking in the barns and boathouses around this region are some very special boats. Last fall, Bernard W. Brock of Lake George donated one of these boats to the Adirondack Experience, the Museum at Blue Mountain Lake. The boat is on display in the ... Read More

Music was so important in  the life of sculptor David Smith that he hoped his two daughters, Rebecca and Candida, would become musicians – going so far as to hire Bolton Landing organist and harpsichordist Hugh Allen Wilson to give them ... Read More

New York Supreme Court Justice Robert J. Muller has enjoined the Lake George Park Commission from treating Eurasian milfoil with chemicals within the next two weeks as it originally planned, effectually preventing the agency from using the aquatic ... Read More

It’s no secret that the past two years have been trying for the global hospitality industry, but there are signs of recovery underfoot, and the arrival of 2022 brings the promise of new restaurant openings including the much anticipated The Gem in ... Read More

On the surface, Afong Moy, the 14-year-old girl brought from China and put on display as the first Chinese woman in America, is nothing but “the gaze” – the western gaze, the male gaze, the gaze of those who attend the theater, the ... Read More

“The Fascinating Life of Katrina Trask,” a talk illustrated with projected vintage photos and graphics, will be presented by Betty Spinelli at The Sembrich in Bolton Landing on Wednesday, June 22 at 2 pm. Katrina Trask, who lived from 1853 to ... Read More

Larry Eichler, a research scientist at RPI’s Darrin Fresh Water Institute in Bolton Landing since 1979, retired this year. Over the years, Eichler’s expertise expanded to include acid rain, aquatic plants – native and exotic – and ... Read More

“The total mass of plastics on earth now exceeds the total mass of all mammals,” writes former Johnsburg resident Bill McKibben, citing a new Swedish study that found that chemicals “with diverse risk potentials” now surpass our ability to ... Read More

“Lake George is not a petri dish,” Lake George Association attorney Michael Crowe told Justice Robert J. Muller in state Supreme Court on June 8. “Before we dump a chemical into Lake George, where no chemical herbicide has ever been used to ... Read More