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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

When media personality John LaSalandra, who divides his time between Miami Beach, Saddle River, NJ and Lake George, bought a barn in Bolton Landing in 2020, he was in need of storage space, and the building suited him perfectly. Unfortunately, it ... Read More

The time has come for Warren County to consider all options for the 40 miles of railroad it owns along the Hudson River, says Bolton Supervisor Ron Conover. “As a county, do we want to own a railroad? Do we want to be in that business? If so, we ... Read More

Before the documentaries of Ken Burns, there were historical pageants – a popular form of entertainment by means of which Americans also digested information about the history of their nation and their region. From the 1850s to the 1950s, ... Read More

“Sometimes a name says more about the people who bestow it than it does about those bear it,” sings Mayo Buckner in Tom Cipullo’s opera of that name, which will be performed at Seagle Festival in Schroon Lake on August 6, 7 and 9 at 7:30 pm and ... Read More

In January, 1975, a score of men, Ivy League graduates, accomplished, most of them wealthy, assembled in a conference room at the Rockefeller family offices in New York to discuss the possibility of creating “a mechanism” to monitor the ... Read More

The Lake George Association’s annual gala, held July 11 at the Sagamore, raised more than $500,000 for its lake conservation work – the most money ever raised by the 140-year-old organization in a single night. Roughly half that sum will be used ... Read More