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In 2026, the US will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That year, the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History will unveil a new display interpreting the 54 ft 1776 gunboat “Philadelphia,” built for ... Read More

A staggering seven million tons of road salt have been deposited on Adirondack highways since 1980. If that practice is ever to be curbed, it will owe something to the Adirondack Road Salt Reduction Task Force, whose final report was released ... Read More

The Lake George basin is huge. The lake itself is 32 miles long, up to 2.5 miles wide, occupying 45 square miles of glacier-scoured earth within a 233 square mile watershed.  Few have been as able to reduce it to an intelligible, comprehensible ... Read More

If you were walking in Lower Manhattan in the mid-1950s and happened upon a dead-end street of warehouses named Coenties Slip, you would have stumbled upon a “Canalboat Village” – a cluster of barges which had once hauled limestone from Vermont ... Read More

The Bolton Historical Museum’s No-Octane Regatta, a successor to its 2018 Bolton Landing Boats and Boating Festival, will be held Saturday, September 28 from 10 am to 4 pm in Rogers Park. According to organizers Reuben and Cynde Smith, owners of ... Read More

Leveraging government grants and harnessing the generosity of foundations and families, the Lake George Association has launched a Lake Impact Fund to arrest the decline in the lake’s water quality. An initiative announced September 11 – the Lake ... Read More

A new state housing program could help Warren County remedy the deficit in available, affordable long-term rentals in the so-called up-county towns north of Queensbury, Warren County Planner Ethan Gaddy told a committee of Supervisors on August 21. ... Read More

The Sagamore’s plan to build a three-story, 53 room workforce dormitory on Green Island, which was approved by Bolton’s Town Board on the recommendation of its Planning and Zoning boards on September 3, is now before the Adirondack Park Agency. ... Read More

You’re probably familiar with “Little Free Libraries,” those book-exchange kiosks where you can take a book for free and possibly leave another in its place. Usually, you find a lone “Little Free Library” – the name is trademarked – on ... Read More

My family’s first Christmas tree in the Adirondacks was a hemlock. I know this for a fact because my father wrote about it in one of his first essays as a country editor, something he became when he and my mother moved us from Manhattan to Lewis, ... Read More