Current News

Hudson Headwaters Health Network has been awarded a $1.5 million grant to renovate one of its 21 local health centers.   The American Rescue Plan, signed into law in March,  included funds for “major health care construction and ... Read More

Music teachers from across the Adirondacks assembled at Ticonderoga High School over the course of two October weekends to hone their skills in repairing and maintaining brass and woodwind instruments, courtesy of an expanding Beinstrumental ... Read More

The Lake George Land Conservancy, the Bolton Landing Chamber of Commerce  and the Town of Bolton celebrated the expanded and improved Pinnacle Preserve with a  ribbon cutting ceremony on October 5.  A vigorous partnership between the Lake George ... Read More

Twenty five years ago, while vacationing with my wife at rustic Elk Lake Lodge, a fellow guest remarked that his plans to spend his final day in the Adirondacks bagging one more peak had changed; instead, he would  visit downtown North ... Read More

Other than attending the National Governors’ Conference at Bolton Landing’s Sagamore hotel in 1954, Richard Nixon did not, so far as I know, ever visit the Adirondacks.  Yet he was recently ranked the second most environmentally progressive ... Read More

Work is already under way on a game-changing winter attraction that’s expected to make Lake George a bona fide year-round destination, while dazzling visitors with its amazing display of creativity and imagination. Local officials welcomed Ice ... Read More

“We urge  Congress and the President to give consideration to the establishment of an Interstate Park System,” Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks stated in 1970. “We believe the ... Read More

From an ecologist’s perspective, there is nothing especially extraordinary about this patch of woods at the edge of The Wild Center in Tupper Lake. “A sixty-year-old succession forest, dominated by scotch pines at the end of their life span, soon ... Read More

As a curator, Dan Cameron likes work that is “bursting at the seams,” as he once told an interviewer. His own artwork might seem a bit more restrained. Nevertheless, some of the pieces now on display in “Pictures within Pictures” at the Lake ... Read More

America’s early militias fought Native Americans, the French, the British, Canadians and even citizens of the US. For Anti-Federalists and Jeffersonians, the citizen militia was not simply an armed force; it was a school for civic virtue, an ... Read More