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State Senator John Dunne Fought Barriers to Voting, Barriers Rising Again When I told former state Senator John Dunne about my plans to return to the Adirondacks and publish a one-hundred-year-old summer newspaper, he was skeptical. “What will you ... Read More

The Collective, the new, Bolton Landing, Main Street emporium composed of three Bolton born and bred businesses – Finishing Touches, Lake Shore Provisions and Local – is open for business every day through January 4. To help celebrate the ... Read More

If you found yourself roaming the corridors of the Ausable Valley High School on October 10, you would have heard, sequentially or as some strange, dissonant ensemble, rhythmic drumming, scraping bows, bleating horns, rising and falling voices ... Read More

On October 22, slightly more than a year after Lake George Village’s Shepard Park bandstand was destroyed by a June 30, 2024 fire, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for a $5.5 million amphitheater that will include a new, state-of-the-art ... Read More

On December 14,  local residents will be among the tens of thousands of volunteers throughout North America braving winter weather to collect data about birds. On that weekend, Lake George Land Conservancy (LGLC) will sponsor this year’s ... Read More

A piece of a 1758 bateau retrieved from the bottom of the lake, displayed under glass at the Lake George Battlefield Park Visitors Center, is the only visible remains of the Battle of the Bateaux of 1960. If one goes by contemporary newspaper ... 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

December 4, 1775:  Henry Knox, a young, self-taught  military strategist and engineer from Boston, spends the night in Lake George (where he bunks with a British prisoner of war and would-be spy named John Andre) on his way to Fort ... Read More

Local health centers and hospitals have found advocates in Congress for their endeavor to prevent changes to a pharmacy discount program that has been instrumental in upgrading facilities and opening new ones. Under what is known as the 340B program, ... Read More

Warren County has been awarded a $535,401 grant from the 2022 Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act to rebuild two boat launch-pocket parks on the Schroon River, enabling the county-owned properties to withstand flooding and ... Read More