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A time of risk is also a time of opportunity, says Dr. John Rugge, a co-founder of the Health Care Coalition for the North Country. At risk, according to Rugge, is health insurance for tens of thousands of local residents and as many as 5,000 jobs ... Read More

The Adirondack Park-wide debate about wake boats and their impacts on shorelines, lake beds and wildlife has reached Lake George. This summer, the Lake George Park Commission’s boat inspectors will start counting the number of wake or surf boats ... Read More

The Schroon River, which flows for approximately 67 miles through the Adirondack Mountains, mostly through Warren County, has been named one of the top ten fishing streams in New York State. The river, which joins the Hudson below Warrensburg, ... Read More

A “Community Resource Directory,” a new online database to help social service organizations assist clients and communities throughout the Adirondack Park and beyond, has been launched by the John Rugge Center for Community Impact at Hudson ... Read More

A bipartisan group of legislators and state-wide associations is pressing lawmakers to increase funding for the Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) by at least $250 million. Last year’s state budget sent Washington and Warren Counties ... Read More

A Warren County family earning a median income of $78,000, willing to invest 30% of that income in housing, should not expect to spend less than $325,000 on a home. To buy a house in Bolton Landing, that same family would need an additional $350,000. ... Read More

Early childhood programs serving families in the Adirondacks are severely underfunded, leaving thousands of children without access to childcare, home visiting and early intervention services despite more than $36 million in public spending each ... Read More

State fisheries managers are re-evaluating decades of Atlantic salmon stocking in Lake George after acknowledging that the program – which every spring has deposited 30,000 fingerlings into the lake – has failed to produce a sustainable ... Read More

The Cooper’s Point mansion built for Frederick F. Peabody in 1913 and owned by the Pitcairn family from the 1930s through the 1950s, will be restored to its original, stately grandeur, say its owners, Bolton Landing residents Joe Russell and John ... Read More

If demographics were destiny, the future of Hague would be a matter of concern. Not only has its population shrunk from a high of 1,717 in 1850 to 627 in 2023, the last year for which statistics are available, but the median age has risen to 62.4. ... Read More