Current News

Vacationers may return to Lake George this summer. Whether or not there are any workers here to serve them is the question. The federal government, via an executive order issued by the president, has suspended the granting of H-2B visas for low-skill ... Read More

To curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, New York State began limiting face-to-face interactions in mid-March.  In response, local health centers and hospitals accelerated the use of virtual or remote health care, otherwise known as ... Read More

The US Land and Water Conservation Fund supports more than national parks and wildlife refuges. Since it was established more than 50 years ago, the fund has also delivered $1 million to New York State to help protect historic battlefields, many of ... Read More

Denise Liquori Foster, Warrensburg Jr-Sr High School’s band director, wanted to participate in something larger – much larger- than herself on Memorial Day this year.  Instead, without ever intending to, she became a focus national ... Read More

Three restaurants. Three alpha males. One small town. And one family, a father and two sons, wives beside them, struggling to make the most of a short summer season, sometimes at the expense of one another. That’s the premise behind “Summer ... Read More

Molly Herron, a Ph.D. candidate in composition at Princeton University, has won the 2020 Lake George Music Festival Composition Competition. Her submission, “Three Sarabandes,” written for a string quartet, has been described as “a meditation ... Read More

Fifty years ago this August, Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks met at Eagle Nest, the great camp of its chairman, Harold Hochshild. Members brought their spouses, and it seems as though the ... Read More

US Rep. Elise Stefanik says she is “optimistic” that a bipartisan consensus will emerge in Washington, enabling Congress to adopt a federal aid package for states and counties. “We’re moving in the right direction; Senate Majority Leader ... Read More

The Lake George Park Commission has voted to move forward with long-deferred regulatory changes that, its members believe, will tighten protections of  the lake’s water quality. Rounds of meetings with the Department of Environmental ... Read More

The resort and rural towns of Warren County will be  overlooked by the nation’s 2020 census unless  residents participate, says Sara Frankenfeld, a county planner who co-chairs a local Complete Census Count Committee.  ... Read More