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Every day, every hour or so, the Minne Ha Ha departs the Steel Pier, its chirping steam whistles, calliope licks and the bright foam of its paddle wheel suffusing the air with a holiday sweetness. Difficult as it may be to believe, it’s fifty years ... Read More

Thanks to the Jefferson Project, the collaborative effort of IBM, RPI and The Fund for Lake George, Lake George  is now the most extensively monitored water body in the world.  “Lake George is, by far, the smartest lake in the ... Read More

To put into action the new Bolton Recreation Hub Strategy, it will take everyone in the community, including or perhaps especially those in their twenties and thirties who support the Lake George Land Conservancy’s NextGeneration Committee. That ... Read More

National Trails Day, celebrated on Lake George by the Lake George Land Conservancy, fell this year on June 1. (To honor Trails Day, a nationally coordinated event created  to entice people at all levels of fitness into the outdoors, ... Read More

Making the transition from a one hundred year old community hospital nearing obsolescence to a state-wide model of sustainable health care is not only a lengthy and expensive process but a courageous one, says John Remillard, the president of ... Read More

With more money, more hands and more time, more Milfoil will be harvested from Lake George this summer than in either of the two previous years. “It will be big, big effort this summer,” said Pat Dowd, the communications director of the Lake ... Read More

Forty years after banning “any individual sewage disposal system that is unsafe, a source of pollution to surface waters or permits seepage to surface,” the Town of Bolton has approved a measure that will actually enforce that prohibition. On May ... Read More

Regulations, judgement, compromise, education  and, when necessary, legal action, are all parts of the toolkit Given its size, Lake George can, in theory, comfortably accommodate 4,500 boats at any given time; but even at peak times, a ... Read More

Property taxes in lake shore towns would increase “significantly” – perhaps by as much as 30% – if proposals now floated by some Warren County Supervisors were adopted, said Lake George Supervisor Dennis Dickinson. The proposals – to ... Read More