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Senator Ron Stafford, the Plattsburgh Republican who dominated North Country politics for more than forty years, was among the legislators who opposed the creation of the Adirondack Park Agency in 1971. A bill he sponsored in 1977 to abolish the new ... Read More

Land protection pioneer Tim Barnett, the first executive director of the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and a founder of the Lake George Land Conservancy, died on August 29 at the age of 82. Barnett also served on the Lake George Land Conservancy’s ... Read More

“We now have new opportunities to recruit physicians,” says Sean Philpott-Jones, Hudson Headwaters Health Network’s Vice President for Government Relations and Grants Management. According to Philpott-Jones, a federal program that enables the ... Read More

Lake George Village will hold a referendum on its future on September 13, when voters will decide whether to preserve the 125-year-old municipality intact or allow its assets to be absorbed by the Town of Lake George and dissolve. The vote will be ... Read More

The 750-mile Empire State Trail, America’s largest bike path, lies just beyond the reach of Lake George’s residents and visitors. A $160,000 grant from the Northern Border Regional Commission, announced on August 24 by Senators Schumer and ... Read More

Lake George Village’s new wastewater treatment plant is functioning as it should, preventing pollutants from reaching Lake George. “The results speak for themselves,” Lake George Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky said at the ribbon cutting ceremony at ... Read More

Paul Nasrani, the founder of the Adirondack Creamery ice cream company, believes in the positive powers of ice cream. The civic mission of his company is, as he says, “to promote the idea that food – even or especially ice cream – can bridge ... Read More

El Lagarto, Lake George’s three-time Gold Cup winner, now on permanent display at the Adirondack Experience museum in Blue Mountain Lake, is one hundred years old this year. To commemorate the centenary, Lisa Reis, a granddaughter of George Reis, ... Read More

The Lake George Land Conservancy aims to raise $850,000 to permanently protect 47 acres overlooking the Wiawaka Center for Women, which will retain title to the property. Mike Horn, the Conservancy’s executive director, said the largest part of ... Read More

It takes a village… to protect a lake. Or at least one particular village, on one particular lake. To prevent pollutants from reaching Lake George, the Village of Lake George has invested roughly $500,000 in a multi-purpose mobile unit that ... Read More