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Silver Bay’s Historic Fisher Gymnasium Rehabilitation Project Moving Forward

August 14, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Fisher Gym Silver Bay YMCASilver Bay YMCA is one of this year’s Preserve New York (PNY) grantees. Their grant of $11,200 will fund a facility condition assessment of the historic Fisher Gymnasium. [Read more…] about Silver Bay’s Historic Fisher Gymnasium Rehabilitation Project Moving Forward

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Architecture, Grants, Hague, Historic Preservation, Lake George, New York State Council on the Arts, Preservation League of New York State, Preserve New York, Silver Bay YMCA, Warren County

NYS Road Salt Plan Still Stalled While DOT Plans Another Season of Polluting Adirondack Waters

July 17, 2023 by Peter Bauer Leave a Comment

Salt Plow Truck courtesy Adirondack CouncilRoad salt pollution in Adirondacks lakes has been well documented over the last three decades and spotlighted for political action over the last decade. Contamination of residential and small business drinking water wells in lands downslope of heavily salted roads have also been documented, and in some communities is on the rise. [Read more…] about NYS Road Salt Plan Still Stalled While DOT Plans Another Season of Polluting Adirondack Waters

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: Adirondacks, Blue Mountain Lake, DEC, DOT, Essex County, Franklin County, Hague, Hamilton County, Herkimer COunty, Kathy Hochul, Lake George, Lake Placid, Mirror Lake, North Elba, pollution, road salt, Route 28, Route 30, Transportation, Warren County, water quality, winter

Incompetence? Adk Park Agency Loses 2nd Lawsuit Within A Week

March 12, 2023 by David Gibson Leave a Comment

New York Supreme Court hearing room, Lake George, Warren CountyLast April, Adirondack organizations wrote to the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) asking to rediscover their discretionary power to hold adjudicatory public hearings on particularly complex, controversial Adirondack land use projects.

There was no response to our joint letter, but a rather resounding response has just come from a member of our state’s judicial branch. [Read more…] about Incompetence? Adk Park Agency Loses 2nd Lawsuit Within A Week

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Wild, Adirondacks, APA, development, Environmental History, Hague, Lake George, Legal History, politics

How Does A Land Trust Protect A Watershed? One Parcel At A Time

January 27, 2023 by Anthony F. Hall 1 Comment

Saddlebrook Stream Species start to vanish from streams during the first stages of suburban development, according to the United States Geological Service. By the time impervious surfaces had absorbed 20 percent of the terrain of some New England watersheds, for example, those streams’ aquatic invertebrate communities had shrunk by roughly 25 percent. [Read more…] about How Does A Land Trust Protect A Watershed? One Parcel At A Time

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: Bolton, conservation, development, Dresden, Easements, Environmental History, Essex County, Fort Ann, Hague, Horicon, Lake George, Lake George Land Conservancy, nature, Putnam, Ticonderoga, USGS, Warren County, water quality, Wildlife

Charles Evans Hughes Doc Screening in Glens Falls on Saturday

June 7, 2022 by Editorial Staff 2 Comments

My Native Air (Charles Evans Hughes & The Adirondacks)Charles Evans Hughes, a Glens Falls native, was Governor of New York from 1907 to October 1910, when he resigned to accept appointment as a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. He resigned from the court in June 1916 to accept the Republican nomination for President, narrowly losing to incumbent Democrat Woodrow Wilson. He later served as U.S. Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the United States.

Many places in the Adirondacks lay claim to the distinction that Charles Evans Hughes slept there. A century ago, it was at the home of Louis and Charlotte Hyde, now The Hyde Collection art museum, where Charles and Antoinette Hughes stayed overnight on June 24th, 1922, the night before dedication of the Helen Hughes Memorial Chapel, built in memory of their daughter, at Silver Bay Association in Hague on Lake George. [Read more…] about Charles Evans Hughes Doc Screening in Glens Falls on Saturday

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Charles Evans Hughes, Crandall Public Library, Documentary, film, Glens Falls, Hague, Hyde Collection, Lake George, Political History, Warren County

19th Century Tales Of Cabbage Worms

July 17, 2021 by Maury Thompson Leave a Comment

Cabbage Worm courtesy James Lindsey at Ecology of CommansterIn Ray Bradbury’s 1952 science fiction story A Sound of Thunder, Eckels, a time-traveling safari hunter accidentally steps on a butterfly during prehistoric times, which triggers a massive change to the eco-system when Eckels returns to 2055 society.

If it’s so that a single action can have consequences centuries later, I wonder about ramifications from the mass extermination of butterflies by a witty, well-meaning, 19th century Hague (on Lake George in Warren County) cabbage farmer. [Read more…] about 19th Century Tales Of Cabbage Worms

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Nature Tagged With: Food, gardening, Hague, insects, local farms, nature

Rattlesnake Surprises Warren Co Vacationers

August 6, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

ECO LaPoint with a timber rattlesnake in Warren CountyNYS  Environmental Conservation Officer George LaPoint reported that he responded to a residence in the town of Hague, Warren County, for a report of a trapped timber rattlesnake at residence where a family was vacationing on August 2nd. [Read more…] about Rattlesnake Surprises Warren Co Vacationers

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: ECOs, endangered species, Hague, Lake George, nature, snakes, Wildlife

July 1931: Prohibition Agents Seize A Still Near Lake George

July 8, 2020 by John Warren Leave a Comment

Prohibition Agents Seize StillDuring Prohibition the social life of so many Americans was made criminal overnight. Here’s a little nugget from the July 2, 1931 Ticonderoga Sentinel.

One wonders if the men arrested here ever served any hard time. I suspect they did. [Read more…] about July 1931: Prohibition Agents Seize A Still Near Lake George

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Crime and Justice, Hague, Lake George, liquor, Prohibition, State Police, Warren County

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