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When Katie Carson worked for her grandparents and her father, the founders and second-generation owner, respectively, of Lake George’s Shoreline businesses, she often wondered what she would do if she were in charge. If she had imagined something ... Read More

Franziska Boas, the modern dance icon who operated a summer school in Bolton Landing from 1942 to 1949, figures in two new museum exhibitions this summer – The Hyde’s “Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance” and the Bolton ... Read More

The chemical phosphorus, washed by the intensified, heavier rains of our day from lawns, driveways and parking lots into the tributaries of Lake George and then into the depths of the lake itself, is among the incontrovertible sources of harmful ... Read More

Fortunately for Bolton Landing, an architect’s refurbished camper intended for the hippest trailer park in the Hudson Valley never made it to its destination and is now parked behind The Gem restaurant, where it does double-duty as a take-out ... Read More

The Lodge at Schroon Lake, the product of a $25 million conversion of a 36-acre, 125-year-old hotel and cottage colony to a year-round, multi-faceted modern resort, was scheduled to open this week, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception ... Read More

Green Harbour Manor, the Lake George mansion owned by the Pitcairn family from the 1930s through the 1950s, has been purchased for $6.5 million by Joe Russell and John LaSalandra. The Bolton Landing residents said their goal was to restore the 1915 ... Read More

‘Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music and Dance,’ the first exhibition anywhere to explore the modernist sculptor’s fascination with the performing arts, opens at the Hyde Collection on June 24 and will remain on view through September 17. ... Read More

Blessed by Rev. Julie McPartlin, the former rector of Saint James Episcopal Church in Lake George and christened with an eponymous whiskey, a restored 1950s outboard race boat returned to home waters on June 11 after an absence of four decades. Not ... Read More

On July 13, Lake George Village will present a hybrid fireworks and light show – the light show comprising illuminated, synchronized and choreographed drones articulating shapes, forms and images. It may be the first show above Lake George to star ... Read More

In the not-too-distant future, 600 hp electric boats capable of speeds of 35 knots will not be uncommon on Lake George. Lake George may even have its own electric-only boat dealer. If and when that day comes, those boaters must be immune to “range ... Read More