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June 14, 2019

The Trails of the Adirondacks: Hiking America’s Original Wilderness

National Trails Day, celebrated on Lake George by the Lake George Land Conservancy, fell this year on June 1. (To honor Trails Day, a nationally coordinated event created to entice people at all levels of fitness into the outdoors, ... Read More

June 14, 2019

Ticonderoga’s Moses Ludington: Affiliation with UVM Network Creates Model for Sustainable Health Care

Making the transition from a one hundred year old community hospital nearing obsolescence to a state-wide model of sustainable health care is not only a lengthy and expensive process but a courageous one, says John Remillard, the president of ... Read More

June 14, 2019

Lake George Park Commission Awarded Funds to Eliminate Worst Milfoil Beds

With more money, more hands and more time, more Milfoil will be harvested from Lake George this summer than in either of the two previous years. “It will be big, big effort this summer,” said Pat Dowd, the communications director of the Lake ... Read More

June 5, 2019

Landscapes Lost and Found: Two Centuries of Art from Bolton Landing

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“Landscapes Lost and Found: Two Centuries of Art from Bolton Landing” opens at the Bolton Historical Museum on May 25 and will remain on view through Columbus Day. Above David Smith, Untitled, 1936. Co-incidentally, it is one of ... Read More

June 5, 2019

New Bolton Law Requires Septic System Inspection At Time of Sale

Forty years after banning “any individual sewage disposal system that is unsafe, a source of pollution to surface waters or permits seepage to surface,” the Town of Bolton has approved a measure that will actually enforce that prohibition. On May ... Read More

June 5, 2019

Conflict Management and Resolution on Lake George

Regulations, judgement, compromise, education and, when necessary, legal action, are all parts of the toolkit Given its size, Lake George can, in theory, comfortably accommodate 4,500 boats at any given time; but even at peak times, a ... Read More

March 6, 2019

Under New Proposal, Lake Shore Towns Lose Revenues, But Still Pick Up the Bill

Property taxes in lake shore towns would increase “significantly” – perhaps by as much as 30% – if proposals now floated by some Warren County Supervisors were adopted, said Lake George Supervisor Dennis Dickinson. The proposals – to ... Read More

March 6, 2019

Fort George Park Will be Final Resting Place of Bones Discovered at Village Construction Site

Who – and What – Made El Lagarto the Fastest Boat in America?

Jon Bowers, grandson of Reis’ racing partner Anderson Bowers, Searches for Answers No two men could have been more unlike the other. One fastidious, the other extravagant. One looked like a movie star, the other yearned to be one. What united them ... Read More