Current News

New York’s maple syrup production has grown by 50 percent in the last two decades. The state’s sugar bushes yield higher volumes of syrup than in the past and more people have entered the field. Among them: Jeff and Robin Mahler, owners of Mud ... Read More

A workforce housing project on the site of an aging motel, which Lake George pitched as part of its successful bid for a $10 million New York State Downtown Revitalization Grant, is shedding public support, officials say. And a fear the hostel might ... Read More

Much of the costs of replacing infrastructure never engineered for extreme weather falls upon county and local taxpayers, and not the federal and state governments. According to Warren County officials, complying with changes in Environmental ... Read More

Always struggling, Warrensburg’s Hickory Ski Center (or Hickory Hill, as we knew it in our youth) was uncertain if its ski lifts, which have been dormant for the past eight seasons, would run this year. But with help from Queensbury High School ... Read More

Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposal to reconfigure the formula by which state aid to schools is apportioned will deprive Adirondack districts of essential operating revenues, Assemblyman Matt Simpson said January 22. Relatively wealthy school ... Read More

In 1955, my father travelled from New York City to Mississippi, where he was born and where his own father had been a newspaper publisher, to cover the trial of the two white men who had been indicted for the lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old ... Read More

Lake George’s drive to honor the many who died at the smallpox hospital at Fort George in the first years of the American Revolution continues to gather momentum. Following a discussion of the proposal at the January 11 meeting of the Adirondack ... Read More

For roughly a century, the Loines family acted as stewards of more than 10,000 acres of land along and above Northwest Bay. What the family didn’t protect itself, it donated to the Nature Conservancy or sold to New York State. With the death of ... Read More

Dome Island is that rarest of things, an undisturbed piece of wilderness in the middle of Lake George, protected for the past seventy years by the Nature Conservancy and a committee of local volunteers and, in recent decades, by the Lake George Land ... Read More

In December, the global climate conference in Dubai was gaveled to a close with a commitment to “transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner.”  That “just, orderly and equitable” ... Read More