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Schroon Lake

NYS Awards $8M in Clean Water Project Grants to Adirondack Communities

April 28, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Entering Adirondack Park signThe NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) has awarded $638 million in grants to municipalities statewide for water infrastructure projects and Town of Indian Lake in Hamilton County was the biggest winner among Adirondack communities. [Read more…] about NYS Awards $8M in Clean Water Project Grants to Adirondack Communities

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Council, Adirondacks, clean water, Dannemora, Environmental Facilities Corporation, Essex, Essex County, Grants, Hamilton County, Indian Lake, Lake Champlain, nature, peru, Saranac River, Schroon Lake, Schroon River, Warren County, Warrensburg, water quality, Westport

The Pottersville Fair: Gambling, Races, and Gaslight Village

December 18, 2021 by John Warren 7 Comments

Pottersville Fairgrounds with acrobatsThose traveling on the Adirondack Northway (I-87) between Exits 27 and 28 probably don’t realize they are passing over Pottersville, the northern Warren County hamlet that borders southern Schroon Lake.

For a hundred years, from the 1870s into the early 1960s, the tiny village was home to amusements that drew thousands. The most remarkable of them, the Pottersville Fair, drew 7,000 on a single day in 1913. Later it hosted a large dance hall, roller skating rink, and the Glendale Drive-in, while nearby Under the Maples on Echo Lake was host to circus acts and an amusement park that was a forerunner of the Gaslight Village theme park in nearby Lake George.  [Read more…] about The Pottersville Fair: Gambling, Races, and Gaslight Village

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Amusement Parks, bicycling, Chestertown, Gambling, Horses, Lake George, Pottersville, Schroon Lake, Schroon River, Sports History, Vice, Warren County

Remembering Murdered Game Warden William Jackson

September 9, 2020 by John Warren Leave a Comment

schroon lake murder headlineThe LaGoy brothers were rough. A neighbor near Severence, on the road between the village of Schroon Lake and Paradox Lake in the Adirondacks, once wrote a letter to a local newspaper asking for a telling retraction.

“I was not lost,” D.S. Knox wrote. “My wife was much excited by the delay of about an hour of time over due, thinking as I have an organic heart trouble, caused to give her alarm, and not ever thinking of any of the LeGoy family causing any harm as neither of us believe that any of the LeGoy family ever would cause any personal harm without a provocation.”

It was rather important to Knox to make it clear to the world, that even if his wife had been talking out of school, neither of them harbored any ill will toward the LaGoys. [Read more…] about Remembering Murdered Game Warden William Jackson

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Crime and Justice, Dannemora, Essex County, Forest Rangers, Mineville, Paradox Lake, Schroon Lake

Early Stunt Men, Daredevils ‘The Human Fly’ & ‘Hurricane Hutch’ in NY

August 5, 2020 by Maury Thompson 3 Comments

Daredevil stunt man and movie actor Rodman “The Human Fly” Law had been shot out of a “monster sky rocket” and had jumped in a specialized “aeroplane parachute” from the Brooklyn Bridge and the 792-foot Woolworth Building, the tallest building in the world at the time.

For his next feat, Law came to the Adirondacks. [Read more…] about Early Stunt Men, Daredevils ‘The Human Fly’ & ‘Hurricane Hutch’ in NY

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Ausable Chasm, Ausable River, Essex County, film, Film History, paddling, Performing Arts, Saranac Lake, Schroon Lake

Adirondack Communities Rebrand As ‘Adk Hub’

June 5, 2020 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

HUB LogomarkThe Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism and the communities of Minerva, Newcomb, North Hudson, and Schroon Lake have announced the creation of a new brand and website to promote tourism in the southeastern Adirondacks.

Formerly known as the Schroon Lake Region, the region is now branded as the Adirondack Hub, emphasizing the region’s position as the ideal launching point for Adirondack adventures. [Read more…] about Adirondack Communities Rebrand As ‘Adk Hub’

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Minerva, Newcomb, North Hudson, ROOST, Schroon Lake, Tourism

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