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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

With its wealth of resources, natural, nautical, cultural and otherwise, Lake George can afford to acknowledge that other regions possess some advantages that we lack, such as commercial apple orchards. Fortunately, for those who like their apples ... Read More

“Jazz at the Lake,” the Lake George Arts Project’s intimate, authentic jazz festival held annually in Shepard Park (except, of course, during the very few years when it has rained) will return for its 40th edition September 13 to 15 with a ... Read More

“Infrastructure pushed beyond the range for which it was designed (will) become stressed and fail,” a 2008 report titled “Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation” by the National Research Council (NRC) warned. Now, sixteen ... Read More

Beech Leaf Disease, first detected in the Lake George watershed in July, 2023 and which has since spread throughout the state-designated Lake George Wild Forest, will be among the topics discussed at “Eastern Hemlocks, Forest Health and Threats to ... Read More

Three towns in Warren County – Lake George, Bolton and Horicon – are among those with hamlets where median home sale prices range from $600,000 to $900,000 – among the highest in upstate New York. But drive a few miles inland and the picture is ... Read More

This year marks the 130th anniversary of the adoption of the state constitutional clause that declares the Adirondack Forest Preserve “forever wild,” prohibiting the sale or leasing of state-owned woodlands to lumber companies and banning the ... Read More

Conservation requires a long view, into a future we cannot even begin to anticipate. “When we do land conservation, we don’t always know how the map will unfold in the decades to come,” said Mike Horn, the Lake George Land Conservancy’s ... Read More

Few bodies of water have a scientific pedigree of any sort, let alone one as impressive as Lake George’s. The lake was a summer laboratory for those who worked in General Electric’s Research Lab, the so-called House of Magic. Among them: Guy ... Read More

Five generations of Dahlgrens have spent their summers on Heart Bay, and for every one of them, the 1937 Lyman berthed in the historic boathouse is as cherished as any family member – perhaps more so. Fran Sisca, the owner of Hague’s Mountain ... Read More