Current News - Lake George Mirror

May 29, 2020

Local Memorial Day Tribute Receives National Attention

Denise Liquori Foster, Warrensburg Jr-Sr High School’s band director, wanted to participate in something larger – much larger- than herself on Memorial Day this year. Instead, without ever intending to, she became a focus national ... Read More

May 25, 2020

The Making of “Summer Rush”

Three restaurants. Three alpha males. One small town. And one family, a father and two sons, wives beside them, struggling to make the most of a short summer season, sometimes at the expense of one another. That’s the premise behind “Summer ... Read More

May 17, 2020

Composer Molly Herron, Innovator Steeped in Tradition, Wins Lake George Music Festival’s 2020 Competition

Molly Herron, a Ph.D. candidate in composition at Princeton University, has won the 2020 Lake George Music Festival Composition Competition. Her submission, “Three Sarabandes,” written for a string quartet, has been described as “a meditation ... Read More

May 11, 2020

Vincent Schaefer’s Modest Proposal: The Adirondack Park as a Sanctuary from Air Pollution

Fifty years ago this August, Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks met at Eagle Nest, the great camp of its chairman, Harold Hochshild. Members brought their spouses, and it seems as though the ... Read More

May 2, 2020

Warren County Facing Cuts in State Aid, Falling Sales Tax Revenues

US Rep. Elise Stefanik says she is “optimistic” that a bipartisan consensus will emerge in Washington, enabling Congress to adopt a federal aid package for states and counties. “We’re moving in the right direction; Senate Majority Leader ... Read More

May 1, 2020

Lake George Park Commission Advances Revised Stormwater, Stream Corridor Regulations

The Lake George Park Commission has voted to move forward with long-deferred regulatory changes that, its members believe, will tighten protections of the lake’s water quality. Rounds of meetings with the Department of Environmental ... Read More

April 26, 2020

Response to Census Lags, Endangering County’s Standing

The resort and rural towns of Warren County will be overlooked by the nation’s 2020 census unless residents participate, says Sara Frankenfeld, a county planner who co-chairs a local Complete Census Count Committee. ... Read More

April 20, 2020

New York State Opens DEC’s Lake George Launch Ramps

Local Distillery, Breweries, Step Up to Help Out

High Peaks Distillery is among the few businesses in Lake George still busy, and not because it’s manufacturing small batch bourbon. These days, it’s making something equally if not more precious: hand sanitizer. The shift in product lines ... Read More

April 10, 2020

Hudson Headwaters Wins $1.9M in Emergency COVID-19 Funding

Hudson Headwaters Health Network has been awarded $1.9 million in emergency funding to help defray the costs of combating Coronavirus, the federal government’s Health Resources and Services Administration has announced. The ... Read More