Current News

The core of the Bolton Museum – an 1890 wood frame church building – is expected to be fully restored and available for year-round use by spring, 2028, officials from the Town of Bolton and the museum have confirmed. A $53,000 grant from ... Read More

Saddle Up Stables, the Diamond Point horseback riding attraction owned by the same family for more than eighty years, has been sold to Bolton Landing investors and entrepreneurs Joe Russell and John LaSalandra for roughly $4 million. The transaction ... Read More

Hague is the latest local town to resist construction of battery energy storage systems (BESS). The Hague Town Board on June 9 adopted a one-year moratorium on development of any BESS or data centers in the town. Supervisor Joshua Patchett said he is ... Read More

A planned year-round performing arts center for the southern Adirondacks has advanced a step or two further: the Seagle Festival in Schroon Lake has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Capital Projects ... Read More

The fisher, once all but extinct in the Adirondacks, has now firmly re-established itself here. According to John Davis, an Essex County writer and activist affiliated with the New Mexico-based Rewilding Institute, the fisher is “a rewilding ... Read More

The destruction of the Lake George Yacht Club’s building in Basin Bay in 1896 was as much a loss to Lake George’s architectural history as the demolition of the Gilded Age-era mansions along Millionaire’s Row. Today, only a few privately-owned ... Read More

There were people living in the Adirondacks even before the forests that we now classify as “wilderness” emerged from the soil. That is the story that Curt Stager and David Kanietakeron Fadden tell in “The First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of ... Read More

Artifacts from the Revolutionary War-era schooner Royal Savage, once lost beneath Lake Champlain for more than a century, are in the process of being preserved by Fort Ticonderoga, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and the National Museum of the ... Read More

A species of silver fly, an instrument for controlling the invasive aphid-like insect hemlock wooly adelgid (HWA), has established itself in upstate New York, the Department of Environmental Conservation has announced. The Cornell University-based ... Read More

The Lake George Land Conservancy (LGLC) has purchased 53 acres in the hills above Northwest Bay – an acquisition that will protect both view sheds and water sheds. The lands lie within the Town of Bolton and are divided by Federal Hill Road. Until ... Read More