Current News

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

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