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Endea Owens, in all likelihood the break-out artist of the year, kicks off the 39th annual “Jazz at the Lake” in Shepard Park on Friday, September 15 at 6 pm. Daniel Kelly, the composer and musician who curates the festival, expects her impact ... Read More

Lake George’s drive to honor the many who died at the smallpox hospital at Fort George in the first years of the American Revolution continues to gather momentum. U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer reaffirmed his support for local plans to inter the ... Read More

The Gruskin Group, the multi-disciplinary New Jersey-based design firm whose founder, architect Ken Gruskin, is a lake resident, first sponsored “Jazz at the Lake” in 2009. At the previous year’s festival, organizer and co-founder Paul Pines ... Read More

A painting, rather than an example of the sculpture that made David Smith famous, introduces the visitor to “Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music and Dance,” The Hyde Collection’s sensational exhibition that will close on September 17. A ... Read More

Lake George Village’s water system has more than enough capacity to service the five to six hundred new residential units expected to be constructed in the Town of Lake George within the next few years. That’s the conclusion of a technical study ... Read More

Mutualism – the mutually beneficial interaction of two or more organisms – is not limited to the world of plants and animals. It can be found in our communities. In fact, it is the very definition of community. Example: a collaboration of three ... Read More

Scott Cotten may not have achieved everything he might have hoped to when he launched his length-of-the-lake swim on August 14, but he did manage to: swim nearly 20 miles, much of it in the dark, beating against a north wind; call attention to the ... Read More

According to conventional wisdom, an association with the Adirondack Mountains adds value to a brand or product. Evoke the balsam-scented air, the wind in the sails of an Idem or the rush that comes from immersing yourself in a deep spring-fed pool ... Read More

Birds of a Feather Studio Gallery, which opened on Chestertown’s Main Street last spring, has installed a new, three-woman exhibition that will be on view through September 10. The artists – Joan Jensen, Louise Hoffman and Jackie Pardon – work ... Read More

Not known for an expansive view of the powers of state government, some New York Republicans can at least imagine a role for the state in regulating the spread of Short-term rentals. “Short-term rentals are definitely having an effect on ... Read More