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No doubt, some restaurant, bar and club patrons were in for a surprise when they entered their favorite establishments earlier this month. Others were in the know. But all were in a for a treat. Throughout the month of June, the Seagle Festival took ... Read More

Chestertown has a new restaurant, but perhaps “new” is not the best way to describe “The Remington on Main.” It is housed in an 1893 building that has been a local hub for decades and is owned and operated by people who are hardly new to the ... Read More

A new Lake George Park Commission study paints a picture of a lake in transition, with fewer individual boaters, growing commercial charter operations and changing recreational habits reshaping the lake’s economic profile. The 2025 Recreation ... Read More

No doubt, the popularity of “Welcome to Lake George: Vacation Paradise of the 50s and 60s,” which opened at the Bolton Museum in 2025, is due in part to the fact that so many residents and visitors see themselves – figuratively and literally ... Read More

The core of the Bolton Museum – an 1890 wood frame church building – is expected to be fully restored and available for year-round use by spring, 2028, officials from the Town of Bolton and the museum have confirmed. A $53,000 grant from ... Read More

Saddle Up Stables, the Diamond Point horseback riding attraction owned by the same family for more than eighty years, has been sold to Bolton Landing investors and entrepreneurs Joe Russell and John LaSalandra for roughly $4 million. The transaction ... Read More

Hague is the latest local town to resist construction of battery energy storage systems (BESS). The Hague Town Board on June 9 adopted a one-year moratorium on development of any BESS or data centers in the town. Supervisor Joshua Patchett said he is ... Read More

A planned year-round performing arts center for the southern Adirondacks has advanced a step or two further: the Seagle Festival in Schroon Lake has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Capital Projects ... Read More

The fisher, once all but extinct in the Adirondacks, has now firmly re-established itself here. According to John Davis, an Essex County writer and activist affiliated with the New Mexico-based Rewilding Institute, the fisher is “a rewilding ... Read More

The destruction of the Lake George Yacht Club’s building in Basin Bay in 1896 was as much a loss to Lake George’s architectural history as the demolition of the Gilded Age-era mansions along Millionaire’s Row. Today, only a few privately-owned ... Read More