3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (1156+ words) Until President Coolidge vacationed at Osgood Pond for 10 weeks in 1926, he hadn’t fished since he was a boy. “I just had a tree branch, some string and a bent nail,” Coolidge reenactor Tracy Messer recalled during a Tea and Tour…...

17+ hour, 53+ min ago   (125+ words) Condition assessments of the building provide a path forward for rehabilitation and adaptive use of an existing structure makes good environmental sense. AARCH believes that the greenest building is the one that is already built and that existing buildings can…...

21+ hour, 48+ min ago   (744+ words) The Lake George Association brought together freshwater leaders, scientists, elected officials, community partners and supporters on Saturday, Aug. 8, for a morning focused on one shared priority: protecting Lake George for generations to come. Held at the Fort William Henry Carriage…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (197+ words) In 1901, Luther D. Wishard, a secretary of the International Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and Dr. Harlan P. Beach, the educational secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement, worked with Silas Paine, the owner of the Silver Bay Hotel, to…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (690+ words) Scientists across the state are refining the use of environmental DNA, a new technology that may help manage invasive species in Adirondack waters. Invasive species upset the balance of ecosystems by disturbing the food chain, decreasing biodiversity and outcompeting native…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (206+ words) The Sembrich has received a gift of property from the estate of Anita Behr Richards, the museum’s founding administrative director, reuniting a piece of Marcella Sembrich’s Bay View Estate with the grounds it once served. Richards, a fixture at The…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1064+ words) In 2020, a surge of new hikers arrived in the Adirondacks looking for safe outdoor recreation during the pandemic. In response, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation formed a program to teach them how to hike responsibly. And nowhere…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (343+ words) The Adirondack Park Agency is losing one of its most senior staff members and gaining a new counsel, Executive Director Barbara Rice announced on Thursday. Communications Director Keith McKeever’s last day at the Adirondack Park Agency’s Ray Brook office is…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (114+ words) Vassily will present a program entitled “Beethoven Banquet,” featuring three of the most loved sonatas, on Aug. 23 at the Saranac Methodist Church. The duo will finish their residency with a program entilted “Russian Extravaganza for Two Pianos” featuring arrangements of…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (978+ words) Feasting our eyes on miles of unspoiled shoreline, we would have seen Follensby Pond this July much as the famed 19th century intellectuals who unintentionally gave this place the name of the Philosophers’ Camp. “Camp” in the Adirondacks has come to…...