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Martha Levy is best known in this area as the painter of “Men Working in Slate Quarry,” the 1939 mural that hung in the Granville High School and then in the Town Hall before being moved to the Slate Valley Museum in 1995. Levy was also an easel ... Read More

Norman Wolgin, the Philadelphia-based real estate developer who restored and reimagined Bolton Landing’s historic Sagamore hotel, died at the age of 95 on February 12.  Wolgin was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1927 to Israel and Rose Basin ... Read More

Canoe Island Lodge, the classic Lake George resort and a 2.7-acre island that was a 19th century campground for the American Canoe Association, have been purchased for $10.7 million by real estate preservationist Ginger Cannon Bailey. The ... Read More

Jeffrey M. Killeen, a pioneer in the field of electronic media who turned his talents and attention to environmental protection, health care and the arts, passed  away on December 14. Elected chairman of The Fund for Lake George in 2011, Killeen ... Read More

Rockwell Kent, the artist who made the Adirondacks his home from 1928 until his death in 1971, mastered more media than any of his contemporaries, even if one were to include Andy Warhol. And no one was more skillful than he at agitprop – exhorting ... Read More

Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954) was the first woman landscape architect to design state parks, the first to plan the landscape of a federally funded housing project, the first to lecture in a university’s city planning department – and the ... Read More

The Emmanuel United Methodist Church in Bolton Landing will hold its last service on Christmas Eve. The church will then cease operations as one of 865 churches within the Upper New York Conference of The United Methodist Church. A vote to disband ... Read More

The Hemlock, one of the oldest trees in the Adirondack Park and among its most abundant and prominent conifers, is on the precipice of extinction. “All Hemlocks are threatened by this tiny pest, the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid,” said Dr. David Orwig, ... Read More

The solution to the crisis of affordable housing in the Adirondacks may lie, at least in part, with our health care providers. The Hudson Headwaters Health Network has announced the launch of an ambitious campaign to mitigate social determinants of ... Read More

Other than attending the National Governors’ Conference at Bolton Landing’s Sagamore hotel in 1954, Richard Nixon did not, so far as I know, ever visit the Adirondacks. Yet he was recently ranked the second most environmentally progressive ... Read More