Current News

This is not the weed you, your father or perhaps even your grandfather purchased in dime bags in Harvard Square or Saint Mark’s Place. “Who knows what they were smoking?” asks Josh Silver, a lawyer and part-time Bolton Landing resident whose ... Read More

120 years after the Lake House hotel was demolished, the park that replaced it is slated to receive some of its most significant upgrades ever. Shepard Park – named in honor of the Brooklyn philanthropist and politician Edward Morse Shepard, whose ... Read More

The Lake George Land Conservancy (LGLC) has launched a campaign to raise $9 million to protect more than 1,200 acres of forests above Lake George – including the summit of Pilot Knob Mountain.  Pilot Knob Mountain has belonged to one family ... Read More

When the Darrin Fresh Water Institute’s “The State of the Lake: Thirty Years of Water Quality Monitoring on Lake George, New York, 1980-2009” was released in 2014, three threats to long-term health of Lake George were identified: road salt, ... Read More

Rural economies based on natural amenities and opportunities for outdoor recreation fare better than those which depend upon prisons, local governments and schools for their jobs, several studies indicate. While the populations of most rural counties ... Read More

Given its size, Lake George can, in theory, comfortably accommodate 4,500 boats at any given time; but even at peak times, on a Saturday afternoon in August, for example, no more than 2,500 boats will be on the lake. In fact, between 2005 and 2015, ... Read More

Sixty-seven more acres of evergreen stands threatened by the invasive Hemlock Wooly Adelgid were treated with pesticides in 2024, Allison McKenna told the Lake George Park Commission at its February 25 meeting. McKenna serves as “boots on the ... Read More

According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, outdoor recreation is a $34 billion industry in New York State, responsible for more than 250,000 jobs. In the Lake George region, outdoor recreation buttresses the tourism economy, which, according ... Read More

Oswald D. “Ozzie” Heck, who owned a camp on the lake’s east side, was Speaker of the New York State Assembly for 22 years, longer than anyone else. For everyone but the very few who find the state legislature a topic of more than passing ... Read More

A 400-unit apartment complex on the former site of a Ramada Inn in Lake George will, if approved and built, double the number of long-term rentals within the town, increase the number of households by one third and help stabilize a falling population ... Read More