Current News

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

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

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

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

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

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

During the Gilded Age, private steamboats were the preserve of the lake’s wealthy “cottagers” – the families who built the mansions on the so-called “Millionaire’s Row.” John Boulton Simpson’s Fanita was among the most prominent. ... Read More

Lauren Whitehead, a New York-based poet, librettist, singer and playwright, will present “The Sound of What You Say,” a one-woman demonstration of the power and the intrinsic music of the spoken word at The Sembrich on Saturday, September ... Read More

A $300 million annual loss to New York State’s community health centers, a direct result of cuts in Medicaid, is not the only threat to their viability. According to Laura Pasco, Chief Financial Officer for Hudson Headwaters Health Network, a ... Read More

It is commonly and frequently assumed that when Thomas Jefferson and James Madison travelled north in 1791 – the trip from which Jefferson famously wrote to his daughter Martha that “Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ... Read More