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A New York State Supreme Court judge has upheld the Lake George Park Commission’s decision to grant homeowners on Bolton’s Basin Bay permits to construct two boathouses and two removable finger docks on Cotton Point Road. “At the end of the ... Read More

The Lake George Club opened its doors to its members for the first time on August 14, 1909. Once commissioning ceremonies came to a close, the club’s first official powerboat races were held. They would be the first of many and lay the foundations ... Read More

Christopher Shaw, the author of two recent books about the Adirondacks, one a novel, the other a memoir, will be the guest of the Historical Society of the Town of Bolton on August 18 for an evening of readings, reminiscences and conversation. “An ... Read More

Bolton Landing and the state-owned camping islands in the Narrows are having a busier summer than usual if the number of boats inspected for aquatic invasive species at Norowal Marina is any indication. According to the Park Commission’s Justin ... Read More

For Matt Putorti, an attorney from Whitehall seeking the Democratic nomination to oppose Elise Stefanik in the 2022 race for Congress, the journey out was, in some respects, the way home. One of 63 students in his high school class in Whitehall, ... Read More

The Garden Club of Lake George was founded in the summer of 1922 by nine women: Mary Whitman Knauth; Marianne Schurz; Gertrude Ranger; Elizabeth Brereton; Mona Hawkins; Mary Hayden; Elizabeth Kreitler; and Charlotte Hyde. These were no ordinary ... Read More

The Lake George Association held its first summer gala since merging with The Fund for Lake George in 2021 on July 23. The occasion offered members and supporters of both organizations their first opportunity to gather under one tent, both literally ... Read More

Traditional Turkish cuisine is more than the sum of its ingredients, although in the right hands, those ingredients produce a delicious meal typical of the eastern Mediterranean. “Turkish food is not just for the nourishment of the body,” says ... Read More

Dome Island is that rarest of things, an undisturbed piece of wilderness in the middle of Lake George.  Noah Chirnomas, an 18-year-old New Jersey resident who graduated from high school earlier this year, is among the hundreds of thousands who ... Read More

A lot has changed in Sweet Briar Bay since 1936,  the first year Dr. Doug Langdon looked out upon the lake from the property he now owns. Horace Barber’s Boat Livery is gone, and so is the Algonquin Hotel above the road. The hotel’s ... Read More