Current News

“Gear Up for Tomorrow,” a 1960 newsreel promoting General Electric that was shown in movie theaters throughout the nation, was filmed largely in Lake George, for good reason. Lake George exemplified the promise of post-War optimism: a material ... Read More

If you’ve ever wondered why county, town and village highway department crews are as professional and as skillfully trained as they are, an annual event, held this year at Painted Pony Ranch in Lake Luzerne, can help explain it. Highway Department ... Read More

Like his mentor, Lake George’s John Apperson, Paul Schaefer mostly eschewed “the white trousers” of the conservation movement. “I’d like to throw some mud on them,” Apperson was wont to say, Schaefer recalled. Unlike the wealthy elites ... Read More

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