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Pilot Knob resident Bill Creighton is the new chairman of the Lake George Association, the nation’s oldest lake protection organization and arguably, its best funded and most effective. Creighton was elected to succeed Dr. John E. Kelly III, who ... Read More

As you approach, depending upon the light, it may strike you as an English country house on a summer afternoon, lifted from the pages of a novel by Henry James or E.M. Forster. It is, however, a restaurant: The Club Grill, the Sagamore resort’s ... Read More

In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte  arrived in New York City with little more in his luggage than a copy of  Machiavelli’s play “Mandragola,” one of the primary sources of his libretto for “Cosi fan tutti,” which he wrote for Mozart 15 ... Read More

Recalling his first glimpse of Lake George in the 1920s, the artist Rockwell Kent wrote: We’d crossed the all but endless flat plain north of Saratoga and passed through Glens Falls. Mountains? Still far away, you’d guess. Just rolling farmland ... Read More

Thanks to a $100,000 donation from the Sagamore, the Bolton Volunteer Fire Company will own ten new Self-Contained Breathing Apparatuses (SCBAs), equipment that is essential to the work and the safety of firefighters. “With the support of Tom Guay, ... Read More

The annual Loon Census will be held on Lake George Saturday, July 18 from 8 am to 9am. Lake George residents and visitors will join hundreds of volunteers across New York simultaneously counting common loons on the state’s lakes and ponds. ... Read More

After more than a year of planning, community participation and collaboration, three northern Warren County towns have launched a brand to promote the unified area, one developed to evoke its wild character and outdoor amenities in the hope of ... Read More

Saddle Up Stables wasn’t just a summer business or a tourist attraction. It was a way of life. That’s among the things Dixie Follette wanted to convey when she and her daughters Lisa Armstrong and Suzi Cocca and Suzi’s husband John met with us ... Read More

The British class system was never as rigid as it appeared in the popular imagination or in its critics’ screeds. Thus Gilbert and Sullivan risked nothing by lampooning it, as they did in the 1878 comic opera, “H.M.S. Pinafore.” The Seagle ... Read More

The town of Hague has filed a complaint with the state Comptroller’s office alleging that Hague is shouldering an unfair portion of the Ticonderoga Central School tax levy. “This complaint is based on four critical legal failures by the ... Read More