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The Adirondack Park is among the “sensitive locations” from which all firearms would be banned under legislation signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul July 1, claims State Senator Dan Stec. A spokesman for Hochul, Deputy Communications ... Read More

Lake George Village will not be dissolved so much as disassembled if a September 13 referendum passes, a consultant told Village and Town residents at a public meeting on June 27 meeting. And while it took nearly 125 years for the Village to evolve ... Read More

The Pavilion, a 19th century hotel and later, the summer home of the family that preserved and restored Fort Ticonderoga, has itself been preserved and restored.  A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on the porch of the Pavilion – the very spot ... Read More

Given the environmental and economic diversity of the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, it’s not surprising that only a handful of organizations have a reach that extends to every town and village lying within the Blue Line.  The Lake ... Read More

Skidmore College’s reach extends beyond Saratoga Springs into the Adirondacks. Thanks to Evan Mack, a Skidmore professor, composer and Ticonderoga resident, local students are now able to study remotely with Skidmore music faculty. Mack, who ... Read More

Lurking in the barns and boathouses around this region are some very special boats. Last fall, Bernard W. Brock of Lake George donated one of these boats to the Adirondack Experience, the Museum at Blue Mountain Lake. The boat is on display in the ... Read More

Music was so important in  the life of sculptor David Smith that he hoped his two daughters, Rebecca and Candida, would become musicians – going so far as to hire Bolton Landing organist and harpsichordist Hugh Allen Wilson to give them ... Read More

New York Supreme Court Justice Robert J. Muller has enjoined the Lake George Park Commission from treating Eurasian milfoil with chemicals within the next two weeks as it originally planned, effectually preventing the agency from using the aquatic ... Read More

It’s no secret that the past two years have been trying for the global hospitality industry, but there are signs of recovery underfoot, and the arrival of 2022 brings the promise of new restaurant openings including the much anticipated The Gem in ... Read More

On the surface, Afong Moy, the 14-year-old girl brought from China and put on display as the first Chinese woman in America, is nothing but “the gaze” – the western gaze, the male gaze, the gaze of those who attend the theater, the ... Read More