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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

James Fenimore Cooper’s knowledge of the French and Indian War may have been sketchy, but he was interested enough in its history to contemplate a visit to Lake George, which he finally did with a party of Englishmen in August, 1824. Lord Edward ... Read More

When Bizet’s Carmen debuted in Paris in 1875, it was a flop. Today, it is one of the three most widely produced operas in the world. Seagle Festival, which last staged Carmen more than 25 years ago, will present it again on July 23, 24, 25 and 26 ... Read More

A new state housing program designed to remedy the deficit in available, affordable long-term rentals is funding the rehabilitation of upper-floor apartments in two commercial buildings in downtown Ticonderoga, Nicole Justice Green, the executive ... Read More

After the Million Dollar Beach and the Adirondack Northway came the Prospect Mountain Highway. The last of Lake George’s three great public infrastructure projects, it was completed in 1969 and opened on June 14 of that year. In other words, at the ... Read More