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Reportedly, her dying words were: “Oh, if only to have another summer on the island….” She is also believed to be the benign ghost who still haunts Recluse Island, appearing before unknowing children or in the form of footsteps heard overhead, ... Read More

The Town of Lake George has been awarded a $1.5 million state grant to replace the English Brook culvert underneath Route 9N, Governor Kathy Hochul announced on July 5. According to Dan Barusch, Lake George’s Director of Planning and Zoning, ... Read More

According to Mike Horn, the Lake George Land Conservancy’s executive director, the Wiawaka Uplands project is the next step in that organization’s multi-year effort to preserve the ecological integrity of Lake George’s south basin, the most ... Read More

Bob and Sheila Brodie purchased a marina in Diamond Point in 1972; since then, what began as a sideline selling dinghies out of the family’s garage has evolved into one of Lake George’s most prominent water-based businesses. Yankee Boating Center ... Read More

For John and Heidi Taflan, Cleverdale is a “point of permanence,” the place to which they have always returned for reassurance and renewal. But for two decades, it was a place that existed mostly in the mind or the imagination, at least for ... Read More

When Katie Carson worked for her grandparents and her father, the founders and second-generation owner, respectively, of Lake George’s Shoreline businesses, she often wondered what she would do if she were in charge. If she had imagined something ... Read More

Franziska Boas, the modern dance icon who operated a summer school in Bolton Landing from 1942 to 1949, figures in two new museum exhibitions this summer – The Hyde’s “Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance” and the Bolton ... Read More

The chemical phosphorus, washed by the intensified, heavier rains of our day from lawns, driveways and parking lots into the tributaries of Lake George and then into the depths of the lake itself, is among the incontrovertible sources of harmful ... Read More

Fortunately for Bolton Landing, an architect’s refurbished camper intended for the hippest trailer park in the Hudson Valley never made it to its destination and is now parked behind The Gem restaurant, where it does double-duty as a take-out ... Read More

The Lodge at Schroon Lake, the product of a $25 million conversion of a 36-acre, 125-year-old hotel and cottage colony to a year-round, multi-faceted modern resort, was scheduled to open this week, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception ... Read More