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Terzian Woodlot: A cool hike with a cooler name

By Tim Rowland

Finding the trail is the hardest part of this outing on the northern end of Lake George

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$10 million won to transform Lake George

By Tim Rowland

State grant may fund housing, lakeside walkway, patriot burial site

Lake George Waterkeeper: State road salt pilot resulted in more salt use

By Zachary Matson

While trucks were spreading less salt per mile, trip frequencies increased, monitors say

Diver Jeff Lynch of Clifton Park swims with a bass in Lake George. Photo by Andy Deitsch

Exploring the depths of Lake George

By Contributing Writer

Lake George is considered among the best cold-water dives in this part of the United States

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The future of Lake George? Residents weigh in on priorities for downtown

By Jak Krouse

Community hopes to become latest winner of NYS downtown revitalization grants

A crowd of people with an older man and a red-headed man in the foreground, both wearing black jackets.

For Lake George mayor, a long career dedicated to lake protection

By Contributing Writer

Robert Blais is believed to be the country's longest-serving mayor. He's retiring at the end of March after 52 years in office

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Lake George Park Commission tries new bid for milfoil herbicide

By Gwendolyn Craig

Ongoing litigation over herbicide use in Lake George isn’t stopping the lake’s regulatory body from attempting chemical treatment for Eurasian watermilfoil this summer. 

Jeff Killeen

Lake George mourns loss of lake advocate

By Times Union

Jeff Killeen led board of Fund for Lake George and then Lake George Association after the two organizations merged

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Lake George Park Commission nearing septic regulations

By Zachary Matson

Supporters back inspection program to protect water quality

Continuing the battle against hemlock woolly adelgid

By Gwendolyn Craig

The New York State Hemlock Initiative released predator beetles, which eat invasive hemlock woolly adelgid, at Paradise Bay on Lake George.

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