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Snapshot NY, a citizen science program created by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University in 2025, will begin Year Two in July. The innovative ... Read More

When Seagle Festival presented Bizet’s “Carmen” for the first time in roughly thirty years last summer, its cast was supplemented by a chorus of ten local school children, members of the Seagle’s inaugural youth opera workshop. The workshop ... Read More

Decades of acid rain and the widespread use of road salt have left their signatures on the water quality of Lake George, though new research shows that the lake is slowly recovering from environmental stress. “But,” conclude the authors of a ... Read More

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