Lake George Mirror

31/10/2024

Tomorrow is the deadline for our November issue. In the mail and on the stands next week. And happy halloween!

26/10/2024

Ryan Gates, who calls Bolton Landing home, is doing interesting, important work in Witchita, Kansas

The film’s producer, Ryan W. Gates, said he hopes audiences not only walk away from the documentary with more education about homelessness but also appreciation for groups working with them.

25/10/2024

We can't stop watching this.......

25/10/2024

The new exhibition at The Hyde Collection considers the palazzo as an intimate space in which the individual’s life unfolds from childhood to adulthood. Be the first to read Lake George Mirror stories. Please support local journalism and subscribe to the Lake George Mirror. bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

The typical approach to the interiors of Italian Renaissance palazzos emphasizes the houses’ public dimensions: as expressions of prestige, power, wealth, of family pride. “Growing Up in a Renaissance Palazzo: Childhood in Italy, 1400-1600,” on view at The Hyde Collection through January 5, ta...

24/10/2024

The Lake George Park Commission supports WCSWCD projects that prevent urban runoff and its pollutants from reaching Lake George. Be the first to read Lake George Mirror stories. Please support local journalism and subscribe to the Lake George Mirror. bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

According to Dave Wick, the Lake George Park Commission’s executive director, “The Warren County Soil and Water Conservation District is the primary driver of proactive, on-the-ground conservation work in this county.” Its work complements the land use regulations adopted by municipalities and...

23/10/2024

Federal funds may help sustain a century-old facility that supports outdoor recreation, the economy and the environment. Be the first to read Lake George Mirror stories. Please support local journalism and subscribe to the Lake George Mirror. bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

The 110-year-old Fish Hatchery in Warrensburg, county-owned and operated since 1982, is not only a public park and educational facility, drawing groups throughout the year to see firsthand how fish are raised, but an essential piece of the county’s multi-million-dollar recreational economy. “Peo...

13/10/2024

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/50463/20241010/north-country-at-work-creating-and-teaching-art-in-the-eastern-adirondacks

Harry Caldwell says teaching students has formed a creative cycle - he shows them his work and they inspire him, too.

11/10/2024

Thurman Fall Farm Tour is tomorrow!

11/10/2024

Our latest issue is now out in traditional and digital format! Subscribe today and never miss an issue of the Lake George Mirror! bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

08/10/2024

Oktoberfest at Adirondack Pub & Brewery:

The Oktoberfest countdown is on! 🍻 Starting this Friday, at 5 p.m. Canada Street by Shepard Park is blocked off and transformed into a Bavarian street fair for 3 days with delicious food and drink, live music all weekend, games, children's activities and 40+ artisan vendors for some great early holiday shopping! 🛍️

FREE Entry! Rain or shine!

Every day this week we'll be showcasing something different about the Lake George Village Oktoberfest so follow along as we count down! 🍺

See the full schedule here: https://lakegeorgeoktoberfest.com/lake-george-octoberfest/

05/10/2024

On October 11, Adirondack Wild will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the National Wilderness Act at its annual meeting, to be held at the Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek. Be the first to read Lake George Mirror stories. Please support local journalism and subscribe to the Lake George Mirror. bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

On September 3, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the National Wilderness Act into law and with one stroke of his pen, protected more than 9 million acres of undeveloped federal lands. In a photograph taken that day, one can spot Stewart Udall, Johnson’s Secretary of the Interior, with ...

04/10/2024

Amy's Race is TOMORROW!

Amy's Race is TOMORROW! See you at the starting line.

03/10/2024

How Lake George’s Adirondack Resorts Press Helped Promote – and Preserve – the Philadelphia, America’s Oldest Surviving Warship. Be the first to read Lake George Mirror stories. Please support local journalism and subscribe to the Lake George Mirror. bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

In 2026, the US will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That year, the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History will unveil a new display interpreting the 54 ft 1776 gunboat “Philadelphia,” built for Benedict Arnold at Whitehall and the oldest survi...

03/10/2024

Two views of Lake George - sixty years apart

02/10/2024

The impacts of de-icing practices on water supplies and human health were among the topics discussed at the LGA’s Adirondack Champlain Regional Salt Summit, held in Lake Placid, NY on October 1. Be the first to read Lake George Mirror stories. Please support local journalism and subscribe to the Lake George Mirror. bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

A staggering seven million tons of road salt have been deposited on Adirondack highways since 1980. If that practice is ever to be curbed, it will owe something to the Adirondack Road Salt Reduction Task Force, whose final report was released September, 2023. Charged with reconciling road safety wit...

28/09/2024

A new edition of “Lake George” by photographer Carl Heilman II presents the lake as only he can see it. Be the first to read Lake George Mirror stories. Please support local journalism and subscribe to the Lake George Mirror. bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

The Lake George basin is huge. The lake itself is 32 miles long, up to 2.5 miles wide, occupying 45 square miles of glacier-scoured earth within a 233 square mile watershed.  Few have been as able to reduce it to an intelligible, comprehensible scale as skillfully as the photographer Carl Heilman I...

26/09/2024

A new exhibition at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum sheds light on the families who lived and worked aboard Lake Champlain’s sailing canal boats. Be the first to read Lake George Mirror stories. Please support local journalism and subscribe to the Lake George Mirror. bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

If you were walking in Lower Manhattan in the mid-1950s and happened upon a dead-end street of warehouses named Coenties Slip, you would have stumbled upon a “Canalboat Village” – a cluster of barges which had once hauled limestone from Vermont and oysters to Essex, now permanently moored. By ...

25/09/2024

The on-water event will feature wood boats of the type seen on Lake George 125 years ago – small sailing craft, canvas-covered canoes and rowboats such as Smith and Grangers, Whitehalls and St. Lawrence skiffs – as well as electric launches. Be the first to read Lake George Mirror stories. Please support local journalism and subscribe to the Lake George Mirror. bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

The Bolton Historical Museum’s No-Octane Regatta, a successor to its 2018 Bolton Landing Boats and Boating Festival, will be held Saturday, September 28 from 10 am to 4 pm in Rogers Park. According to organizers Reuben and Cynde Smith, owners of Tumblehome Boatshop, the on-water event will feature...

24/09/2024

Saturday's Events at the Bolton Landing No-Octane Regatta:

Saturday's Events:
10-4 All-day messabout
1pm Row and Paddle event
2pm Sailboat race
3:30 boat parade! Don't miss it.

22/09/2024

The year that Merino sheep were first introduced to the Lake Champlain and Lake George areas, George Perkins Marsh, the pioneering conservationist, looked out from his home in Vermont across Lake Champlain to the Adirondacks. Vermonters, he knew, had rushed to breed Merino sheep, which, like an inv...

21/09/2024

A new state housing program could help Warren County remedy the deficit in available, affordable long-term rentals in up-county communities. Be the first to read Lake George Mirror stories. Please support local journalism and subscribe to the Lake George Mirror. bit.ly/SubscribeToLGM

A new state housing program could help Warren County remedy the deficit in available, affordable long-term rentals in the so-called up-county towns north of Queensbury, Warren County Planner Ethan Gaddy told a committee of Supervisors on August 21. The New York State Vacant Rental Improvement Progra...

20/09/2024

Lake George Elementary School received a special visit from two balloonists, Peter Griswold and Patrick Cullen, bringing a bit of the excitement of the 51st Adirondack Balloon Festival directly to the school.