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Conservation requires a long view, into a future we cannot even begin to anticipate. “When we do land conservation, we don’t always know how the map will unfold in the decades to come,” said Mike Horn, the Lake George Land Conservancy’s ... Read More

Few bodies of water have a scientific pedigree of any sort, let alone one as impressive as Lake George’s. The lake was a summer laboratory for those who worked in General Electric’s Research Lab, the so-called House of Magic. Among them: Guy ... Read More

Five generations of Dahlgrens have spent their summers on Heart Bay, and for every one of them, the 1937 Lyman berthed in the historic boathouse is as cherished as any family member – perhaps more so. Fran Sisca, the owner of Hague’s Mountain ... Read More

American Power Boat Association-sanctioned racing on Lake George did not end with the 1935 Gold Cup races. From 1954 to 1964, another class of boat (and racers, for that matter) competed for prizes and acclaim – as this summer’s exhibit at the ... Read More

With another strategic land acquisition, Bolton Landing is one step closer to realizing its ambitious plan to become a recreation hub of the southeastern Adirondacks.   The Lake George Land Conservancy (LGLC) has purchased a 30-acre corridor ... Read More

Founded in the 1880s by Congregationalist ministers and for decades a feeder for New England’s toniest prep schools, Camp Dudley is steeped in its own, unique traditions. Among them, it may be surprising to learn, is a pioneering, prevenient ... Read More

An industrial-sized, intermunicipal composting facility, capable of managing the county’s commercial and residential waste, could divert compostable material such as food scraps, brush and leaves from Warren County’s waste stream, shrinking it by ... Read More

What has Lake George given the Lawrence family? Ties that bind the generations. Lasting friendships. A lifetime of memories. Hard as it may be to quantify the value of those gifts, the family has taken a stab at it. The children of the late George ... Read More

The Lake George Association is deploying the resources of the Jefferson Project to conduct the most detailed study yet of the impacts of ProcellaCor on a body of fresh water. “It is very unfortunate that ProcellaCOR was put in Lake George at all, ... Read More

Oswald D. “Ozzie” Heck, who owned a camp on the lake’s east side, was Speaker of the New York State Assembly for 22 years, longer than anyone else. For everyone but the very few who find the state legislature a topic of passing interest, ... Read More