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Addiction, especially addiction to opioids, has reached crisis levels, says Steve von Schenk, a Diamond Point resident and the President and CEO of Adirondack Trust Company.  With a relatively simple idea, and within a relatively short period of ... Read More

By Anthony F. Hall Bolton’s low-cost, low-tech sewage treatment system is attracting the interest of  government officials throughout the northeastern United States. Last month, a delegation from New York State’s Department of ... Read More

By Anthony Hall The third Amy’s Adventure Race for the Lake, an event created by the Lake George Land Conservancy’s Next Generation Committee in 2016, was held September 28 at the Conservancy’s Amy’s Park Preserve in north Bolton. Volker ... Read More

Every day, every hour or so, the Minne Ha Ha departs the Steel Pier, its chirping steam whistles, calliope licks and the bright foam of its paddle wheel suffusing the air with a holiday sweetness. Difficult as it may be to believe, it’s fifty years ... Read More

Thanks to the Jefferson Project, the collaborative effort of IBM, RPI and The Fund for Lake George, Lake George  is now the most extensively monitored water body in the world.  “Lake George is, by far, the smartest lake in the ... Read More

To put into action the new Bolton Recreation Hub Strategy, it will take everyone in the community, including or perhaps especially those in their twenties and thirties who support the Lake George Land Conservancy’s NextGeneration Committee. That ... Read More

National Trails Day, celebrated on Lake George by the Lake George Land Conservancy, fell this year on June 1. (To honor Trails Day, a nationally coordinated event created  to entice people at all levels of fitness into the outdoors, ... Read More

Making the transition from a one hundred year old community hospital nearing obsolescence to a state-wide model of sustainable health care is not only a lengthy and expensive process but a courageous one, says John Remillard, the president of ... Read More

With more money, more hands and more time, more Milfoil will be harvested from Lake George this summer than in either of the two previous years. “It will be big, big effort this summer,” said Pat Dowd, the communications director of the Lake ... Read More