Current News

The amount of chlorides deposited by highway crews in the Lake George watershed has begun to shrink at least in part because of the growing use of a salty, liquid solution known as brine. The contamination of groundwater, tributaries and ultimately ... Read More

Best known as a YMCA conference center whose outreach to nearby communities extends to children, teens and families in need – including those suffering from cancer – Silver Bay is also a model for environmental stewardship. Its new “green” ... Read More

Like many if not most small towns in the Adirondacks, Bolton faces a future without a volunteer-based Emergency Medical Services organization. The ranks of volunteers are aging and thinning. To compensate for its lack of volunteers, Bolton’s EMS ... Read More

Though by far the best known, Seneca Ray Stoddard is not the only commercial photographer to have aimed his lens at Lake George. In fact, two of them, Jule Thatcher (1856-1934) and J.S. Wooley (1867-1943) were employees and students of Stoddard. And ... Read More

The doctor is on her way. Or, to be more precise, a mobile, primary health care center, the first in the Adirondacks, is on its way to under-served communities between the Canadian border and the Capital District. Thanks to a three-year, $1 million ... Read More

With more money, more hands and more time, more Eurasian milfoil was harvested from Lake George last summer than in either two previous years. According to Dave Wick, the Lake George Park Commission’s executive director, that level of spending will ... Read More

A tremendous opportunity exists for communities in Warren County and northern Saratoga County to build what could be one of the great multi-use public recreation trails in New York and the eastern U.S. A groundswell of support is emerging for ... Read More

Addiction, especially addiction to opioids, has reached crisis levels, says Steve von Schenk, a Diamond Point resident and the President and CEO of Adirondack Trust Company.  With a relatively simple idea, and within a relatively short period of ... Read More

By Anthony F. Hall Bolton’s low-cost, low-tech sewage treatment system is attracting the interest of  government officials throughout the northeastern United States. Last month, a delegation from New York State’s Department of ... Read More