Current News

Lake George Supervisor Dennis Dickinson says he will vote against a proposal requiring the inspection of thousands of Warren County septic systems before transfers of property – if, that is, the bill makes it out of the Board of Supervisors’ ... Read More

Lake George Village’s new $24 million wastewater treatment plant is expected to cost more than $1 million a year in operating expenses and debt service. That’s twice as much as the annual cost of the current plant, which the state’s ... Read More

Hudson Headwaters Health Network, which operates 21 community health centers, has been awarded a $12.7 million, two-year grant to treat its COVID-19-scarred Lake George-Adirondack-North Country regions.  On March 25, the Biden administration ... Read More

Salt levels in Lake George tripled over 30 years, from 1980, when New York State and local governments began applying tons of rock salt to their roads in response to a public demand for uninterrupted travel, to 2010, when RPI’s Darrin Fresh Water ... Read More

Hudson Headwaters Health Network is now among the 950 federally-qualified health centers slated to receive doses of COV-19 vaccines directly from the federal government, the US Department of Health and Human Services has announced. Supplies for the ... Read More

In November, 1904, the Rev. Dr. W.H. Paxton, a trustee of Princeton University of nearly forty years standing, died of a paralytic stroke. He was seized “directly after the Yale-Princeton football game,” according to the New York Times.  The ... Read More

Bolton’s Emergency Medical Services organization is vaccinating homebound residents against COVID-19, one of only three rescue squads in Warren County providing that service. In fact, says Tony Lipari, the organization’s Operations Manager and ... Read More

The Lake George Association and The Fund for Lake George will merge, becoming the single largest, best-financed lake protection and advocacy organization in the United States.  The boards of the two not-for-profit groups were scheduled to meet ... Read More

The main threat to the Adirondack Forest Preserve, the late conservationist David L. Newhouse once wrote,  comes not from any overt pressure to overturn Article XIV, the state constitution’s “Forever Wild” clause,  but, ... Read More

The amount of chlorides deposited by highway crews in the Lake George watershed has begun to shrink at least in part because of the growing use of a salty, liquid solution known as brine. The contamination of groundwater, tributaries and ultimately ... Read More