Current News

The Lake George Land Conservancy is midway through the first year of a multi-year habitat restoration project at its Cook Mountain Preserve at the lake’s north end. According to the LGLC, the preserve’s 32 acres of wetlands, forests and overgrown ... Read More

Darren Woods, the Seagle Festival’s Artistic Director, saw “Dead Man Walking” so many times between the opera’s premiere in San Francisco in 2000 and 2009, the year he presented it at Fort Worth Opera, that composer Jake Heggie took to ... Read More

The Hague Town Board will make another attempt at regulating short-term rental properties in the town. But the sentiment is not unanimous. “I’m opposed to the short-term rental law,” said Councilwoman Lara Smith-Ryder, speaking at the July 14 ... Read More

At the height of the craze for all things wild west, the Adirondack Park not only hosted theme parks and roadside attractions like Frontier Town, Indian Village and Ghost Town but western-style dude ranches, all-inclusive resorts where newly mobile ... Read More

Lake George’s Submerged Heritage Preserve – the underwater park that opened in September, 1993, the first of its kind in New York State – will be revitalized under the auspices of a new coalition comprising the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, ... Read More

“I could spend an hour saying wonderful things about Ike Wolgin; he was a multi-faceted individual, involved with so many things,” Bill Creighton, the Lake George Association’s chairman, said to us at the start of the LGA’s annual gala, held ... Read More

Pilot Knob resident Bill Creighton is the new chairman of the Lake George Association, the nation’s oldest lake protection organization and arguably, its best funded and most effective. Creighton was elected to succeed Dr. John E. Kelly III, who ... Read More

As you approach, depending upon the light, it may strike you as an English country house on a summer afternoon, lifted from the pages of a novel by Henry James or E.M. Forster. It is, however, a restaurant: The Club Grill, the Sagamore resort’s ... Read More

In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte  arrived in New York City with little more in his luggage than a copy of  Machiavelli’s play “Mandragola,” one of the primary sources of his libretto for “Cosi fan tutti,” which he wrote for Mozart 15 ... Read More

Recalling his first glimpse of Lake George in the 1920s, the artist Rockwell Kent wrote: We’d crossed the all but endless flat plain north of Saratoga and passed through Glens Falls. Mountains? Still far away, you’d guess. Just rolling farmland ... Read More