Current News

For the first time since 1987, the year the Lake George Park Commission launched its annual effort to control the spread of Eurasian watermilfoil, the plant was hand harvested from waters near Shepard Park Beach. According to the 2022 “Lake George ... Read More

More boats were inspected for aquatic invasive species by the Lake George Park Commission in 2022 than in any year but one since 2016, but fewer boats required decontamination. According to the Lake George Park Commission’s analysis of the 2022 ... Read More

The Town of Lake George has been awarded a $200,000 grant from New York State to help fund the construction of hiking and biking trails on the McPhillips Preserve on French Mountain, Governor Kathy Hochul announced December 29. “The trail system ... Read More

July 4, 2026, will be the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, affording local historical societies and historic sites new opportunities to commemorate the vital role that the Lake George-Lake Champlain corridor played ... Read More

Thanks to $2.9 million in state grants, the long-awaited overhaul of Bolton Landing’s Veterans Memorial Park can begin. The park’s second grant – worth $1.7 million – was the largest of the 23 Local Waterfront Revitalization Grants ... Read More

After a two-year reprieve, New York plans to start diverting cash tied to big pharma – the so-called 340B revenues – from health care providers such as Hudson Headwaters Health Network to the state’s own Department of Health, creating a new ... Read More

Martha Levy is best known in this area as the painter of “Men Working in Slate Quarry,” the 1939 mural that hung in the Granville High School and then in the Town Hall before being moved to the Slate Valley Museum in 1995. Levy was also an easel ... Read More

Norman Wolgin, the Philadelphia-based real estate developer who restored and reimagined Bolton Landing’s historic Sagamore hotel, died at the age of 95 on February 12.  Wolgin was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1927 to Israel and Rose Basin ... Read More

Canoe Island Lodge, the classic Lake George resort and a 2.7-acre island that was a 19th century campground for the American Canoe Association, have been purchased for $10.7 million by real estate preservationist Ginger Cannon Bailey. The ... Read More

Jeffrey M. Killeen, a pioneer in the field of electronic media who turned his talents and attention to environmental protection, health care and the arts, passed  away on December 14. Elected chairman of The Fund for Lake George in 2011, Killeen ... Read More