Current News

Bolstering Lake George High School’s inter-disciplinary curriculum, a Music & Technology program was introduced to the high school in November, courtesy of The Park Theater Foundation. According to Chris Ristau, the executive director of the ... Read More

To protect a stream, the entire stream corridor, perhaps the entire watershed, should be protected, says Paul Bell, the new president of the Lake George Land Conservancy’s Board of Directors. “The water quality in a part of a stream that runs ... Read More

The Conkling Center, the Glens Falls-based non-profit provider of services to the area’s senior citizens, is the beneficiary of this year’s Bolton Landing Holiday House Tour, to be held December 2. The designation is an opportunity to direct some ... Read More

The $5 million overhaul of Bolton Landing’s Veterans Memorial Park will be completed in phases, with construction expected to begin in June, 2024. Thus far, the Town of Bolton has received $2.7 million in grants for the project, most recently, in ... Read More

A white-footed mouse that exchanged the forests of Lake George for a cozy lakeshore camp found itself not only in a mouse trap but inside the belly of a Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus). According to Dr. William S. Brown, the biologist whose ... Read More

A harmful algal bloom has been found on northern Lake George, the Lake George Association has announced. It is the first time that a HAB has been documented on the less-developed end of the lake, said Lake George Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky. The ... Read More

The Town of Thurman will host an annual Fall Farm Tour on October 7 from 10 am to 4 pm. The self-guided tour includes working farms and businesses unique to Thurman, a rural, agricultural and natural resource-based community only twenty minutes from ... Read More

Amy’s Adventure Race for the Lake, an event sponsored by the Lake George Land Conservancy’s Next Generation Committee, will be held this year on Saturday, September 30 at the Conservancy’s Amy’s Park Preserve in North Bolton. The 4.5 ... Read More

Sometime between the end of the Civil War and the start of Spanish American War, Lake George ceased to be an agrarian community and became a fashionable watering hole -a transition captured perfectly in a beautifully restored house in Hague. Not only ... Read More

The amount of chlorides deposited by highway crews in the Lake George watershed has begun to shrink, thanks in part to the growing use of a salty, liquid solution known as brine. The contamination of groundwater, tributaries and ultimately the lake ... Read More