Current News

Lake George’s drive to honor the soldiers of the Continental Army who died at the smallpox hospital at Fort George in the first years of the American Revolution continues to gather momentum. At its April 18 meeting in Ray Brook, NY, the Adirondack ... Read More

The Town of Lake George’s recreation park at the McPhillips Preserve on French Mountain, comprising networks of hiking and biking trails, a pavilion for nature education, a parking lot and various amenities, is expected to open to the public in ... Read More

One frosty winter morning in 1995, I saw Mike Stafford walking down Albany’s State Street toward the Capitol with Secretary of State Sandy Treadwell; Mike had been assigned the job of Treadwell’s counsel by the new Governor, George Pataki. (As ... Read More

The artist and illustrator Rockwell Kent once suggested that Pete Seeger compose an opera based on Adirondack folk tunes, and that my father write the book. Despite the fact that  my father was a friend of Seeger’s, it’s hard to imagine him, ... Read More

As Dr. John E. Kelly III, the chairman of RPI’s Board of Trustees, avid Engineers fan and Lake George resident likes to say, “skate where the puck is headed, not where it is.” One of the benefits of attending Warren County Economic Development ... Read More

Dennis Dickinson, who died on April 3 at the age of 77, campaigned for the office of Lake George Town Supervisor in 2011 on a platform of generating new tourism dollars. And yet when aquatic invasive species threatened to upend the lake’s ... Read More

The first New Deal was the largest expansion of federal power since the Civil War and many of its programs had their origins in Albany, in the policies of Governors Franklin D. Roosevelt and Al Smith and their influential aide, Frances Perkins. The ... Read More

Having released a “Housing Needs Study” in November, Warren County is now taking steps to identify “concrete objectives that we can accomplish at the county level to address our housing challenges,” county Administrator John Taflan said in ... Read More

A panel of five New York State appellate judges, convening in Albany this week will review Supreme Court Justice Robert J. Muller’s 2023 decision invalidating a permit that would have allowed the Lake George Park Commission to treat Eurasian ... Read More

The smoke from the distant wildfires that drifted over Lake George last summer are probably an approximation, albeit a dim one, of 1903. That summer, the late Clarence Petty once recalled, “Heavy smoke from the disastrous forest fires which ... Read More