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The Schroon River north of County Route 11 in Bolton.

October 22, 2025

Clean Water, Clean Air Bond Act Helps Warren County Protect and Promote Schroon River

Warren County has been awarded a $535,401 grant from the 2022 Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act to rebuild two boat launch-pocket parks on the Schroon River, enabling the county-owned properties to withstand flooding and ... Read More

The tenth Annual Salt Summit was held at the Fort William Henry on Sept. 24. Solutions to the over-use of road salt were presented, as well as the science behind it. Photo courtesy LGA

October 22, 2025

A Decade After the First Salt Summit, “Lake George is Headed in the Right Direction”

The tenth annual Salt Summit, hosted and co-sponsored by Lake George Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky every year since its inception, was held at the Fort William Henry Conference Center in Lake George on September 24. Ten years ago, salt levels in Lake ... Read More

A 30 home development has been proposed for a site in Bolton on County Route 11, not far from Exit 24 of I-87.

October 15, 2025

Developer Defends Bolton Subdivision Design as “Environmentally Conscious” Land Use Model

A proposal to build thirty luxury homes on a 95-acre parcel in the Town of Bolton, now under review by the Adirondack Park Agency, has drawn fire from Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve, a prominent environmental conservation group. ... Read More

Arthur Zobel in Zobel and Company Kitchens’s showroom in Glens Falls.

October 9, 2025

Design for Living: Zobel and Company Kitchens

Everyone wants a better kitchen. Not everyone gets one. Owners of camps and homes on Lake George, however, have a source typically available only in metropolitan areas: a nationally recognized, award-winning designer of customized kitchens and ... Read More

Spectrum News/Capital Tonight’s Susan Arbetter, Casey Bortnick and Matt Soriano interview Brendan Wiltse, the LGA’s executive director, at the Darrin Fresh Water Institute in Bolton Landing on August 14. Photo courtesy LGA.

October 1, 2025

The Knowns and the Unknowns: LGA Releases First Results of Year-Long Study of ProcellaCOR

A year-long study of the residual effects of ProcellaCOR, which the Lake George Park Commission used in two bays in 2024 to kill the invasive Eurasian milfoil, has concluded that the herbicide persists in the soils of the lake bottom longer than ... Read More

Messing about with boats at last year’s regatta. Courtesy photo.

September 24, 2025

Bolton Landing’s No-Octane Boats and Boating Regatta to be Held Sept. 27

On Saturday, September 27, the Bolton Museum will host its No-Octane Regatta in Rogers Park. According to organizers Reuben and Cynde Smith, owners of Tumblehome Boatshop, the on-water event will feature wood boats of the type seen on Lake George 125 ... Read More

Putting the finishing touches on a revitalized Veterans Memorial Park, Bolton Landing.

September 11, 2025

After Years of Planning, a Revitalized Veterans Memorial Park Primed to Welcome Community, Visitors

A $4.6 million overhaul of Bolton Landing’s Veterans Memorial Park – the single most extensive renovation of the lakefront park since its June, 1971 dedication – was all but complete by Labor Day. The popular public beach, docks and kayak ... Read More

Aerial view of Bolton Landing. The development would be constructed within walking distance of the school and Main Street parks and businesses.

September 10, 2025

A Low Impact, Green Housing Development Planned for Bolton Landing

A proposal by two Bolton Landing natives to build 18 to 24 single-family houses on two acres, leaving seven acres for protected wetlands, stream buffers and undeveloped green space, could become the first certified Low Impact Development (LID) ... Read More

A New York Power Authority EVolve NY fast charger at Stewart’s Shop in Keene, one of four in the Adirondacks. The other three are in Lewis, Schroon Lake and North Hudson. NYPA’s fast chargers were intended to supplement those funded the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program and installed along more populous travel corridors. According to Assemblyman Matt Simpson, the EVolve NY fast chargers are among the initiatives to shrink the state’s carbon footprint funded, partially or wholly, by consumers’ utility bills.

September 3, 2025

Simpson Co-Sponsors Legislation Granting New York a Ten-Year Extension to Meet Climate Goals

Matt Simpson, the Republican from Essex County who represents the Lake George region in the New York State Assembly, is a co-sponsor of legislation that would delay by a decade the adoption of mandates requiring New York to reduce greenhouse gas ... Read More

Hague Brook, Hague. The Jefferson Project has found that chloride concentrations in the brook dropped by 40% between 2016 and 2024, largely because Hague’s highway department adopted environmentally sustainable ice and snow removal methods. Sub-watersheds near highways maintained by the NYS DOT have seen no or little improvement in water quality.

September 3, 2025

Lake George Waterkeeper Blasts State Transportation Dept. at NYS Assembly Roundtable Over its Salt Use

A plan to use 10% less road salt as part of a multi-year pilot project notwithstanding, the New York State Department of Transportation may still be spreading roughly 290 tons of the stuff every winter on the highway along Lake George’s west shore. ... Read More