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At the Adirondack Council’s annual Forever Wild Day, to be held this year on July 13 at Heaven Hill Farm in Lake Placid, the Council will record the oral histories of those who have fought to protect the Adirondack Park over the past fifty years ... Read More

Jesse Schwartzberg, the Saranac-Lake based architect whose firm has received countless awards for its net-zero, multi-family residential buildings, says high performance, low-carbon buildings do not have to be cost-prohibitive – for either ... Read More

The transformation of a nondescript hillside above Lake George into a memorial to those who perished during what, arguably, was the new nation’s first foreign adventure – the disastrous 1775 invasion of Quebec – began Friday, June 14 with a ... Read More

A new coalition of groups working within the Lake George watershed has been awarded a $108,000 grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program to develop a unified, comprehensive approach to the protection of the area’s hemlock forests, now under siege ... Read More

For many on Lake George, St. Mary’s of the Lake, the New York-based Paulist Fathers’ retreat on the lake’s east side, is the proverbial mystery wrapped inside an enigma. So among the many things you might not know about it,  for the past ... Read More

Once a gas station, then a pizza parlor, then a Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealership, the former eyesore opposite the Tiki motel on Route 9 is now, for Lake George, an unusually distinctive building; of even greater significance, it houses a new ... Read More

By 2050, according to the World Bank, nearly 7 of every 10 persons alive will live in cities. Today, 56% of the world’s population – 4.4 billion inhabitants – live in urban centers, and, not un-coincidentally, more people than ever – ... Read More

If New York is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 85% before 2050, as required by state law, it must reduce food loss and waste by almost as much. Methane from food rotting in landfills, gasses from waste incineration and carbon from trucks ... Read More

Nearly every wild mushroom is an immunomodulator, said Ed Braley, who was shepherding a group of visitors through the woods in Thurman, discussing, as he walked, the art and science of foraging.   “If your immune system’s not running at ... Read More

A hiker whose unleashed dog was bitten by a Timber Rattlesnake on Lake George’s Tongue Mountain Range, and whose story was spread by social media, has led New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation to update its trailhead signage. ... Read More