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According to the Lake George Park Commission’s Director of Law Enforcement, Lt. Joe Johns, the growing number of kayaks paddling too near the sternwheeler Minne-Ha-Ha last summer forced him to divert patrol boats to an unscheduled detail: escorting ... Read More

For the first time since the New York State legislature voted to limit annual increases in property taxes, Warren County’s Board of Supervisors will override the cap.  The tax cap, which first was applied to local governments and school ... Read More

Brendan Wiltse, Executive Director of the Adirondack Watershed Institute in Saranac Lake, has been hired to lead the Lake George Association, the organization announced on November 12. Wiltsie will join the LGA as its Executive Director on January 2, ... Read More

The typical approach to the interiors of Italian Renaissance palazzos emphasizes the houses’ public dimensions: as expressions of prestige, power, wealth, of family pride.  “Growing Up in a Renaissance Palazzo: Childhood in Italy, 1400-1600,” ... Read More

According to Dave Wick, the Lake George Park Commission’s executive director, “The Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District is the primary driver of proactive, on-the-ground conservation work in this county.” Its work complements the ... Read More

The 110-year-old Fish Hatchery in Warrensburg, county-owned and operated since 1982, is not only a public park and educational facility, drawing groups throughout the year to see firsthand how fish are raised, but an essential piece of the county’s ... Read More

On September 3, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the National Wilderness Act into law and with one stroke of his pen, protected more than 9 million acres of undeveloped federal lands. In a photograph taken that day, one can spot Stewart ... 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 ft 1776 gunboat “Philadelphia,” built for ... Read More

A staggering seven million tons of road salt have been deposited on Adirondack highways since 1980. If that practice is ever to be curbed, it will owe something to the Adirondack Road Salt Reduction Task Force, whose final report was released ... Read More

The Lake George basin is huge. The lake itself is 32 miles long, up to 2.5 miles wide, occupying 45 square miles of glacier-scoured earth within a 233 square mile watershed.  Few have been as able to reduce it to an intelligible, comprehensible ... Read More