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By Hannah Hughes, Chronicle Summer Staff

The Town of Lake George held an Open House on June 14 to “foster public engagement and gather valuable input from the community” as the town and village prepare to apply to New York State’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative and NY Forward programs.

“We’ve had this core committee, but we don’t want to operate in a vacuum,” said Gina Mintzer, Lake George Regional Chamber of …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

New York State has implemented an entirely new system this summer for boaters using Lake George’s picnic sites on day use islands and lake mainland.

We had our first go with it last weekend. Here’s what we learned.

You can still buy a season day use pass — now called a Passport — but you can no longer buy it at a ranger station on …

The New York State Department of Vehicles today unveiled the “newly-redesigned North Country regional license plate, part of a series of new license plates featuring the state’s 10 regions. The plate features an image of a sailboat along the St. Lawrence River in front of the

Thousand Islands Bridge.”

The plates for the other nine regions “will be unveiled and made available for sale throughout the month of June.”

“…

By Hannah Hughes, Chronicle Summer Staff

“It’s not about recreating a Gore, or trying to duplicate West Mountain, or anything like that. It’s about preserving its uniqueness into the future,” said Sue Catana, Manager of Hickory Mountain in Warrensburg.

Opened in 1946 by Sue’s parents, Hans and Fran Winbauer, and another couple, Flo and Ken Bates, “it’s a family legacy,” said Dr. Catana.

She said that the property’s “major financial …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Michelle DeGarmo, a 1995 Greenwich Central School grad who is now president of Flatley Read, Inc. Environmental Consultants, plans a three story mixed use building at the downtown lot where an arsonist burned down the historic Wilmarth Building in February 2022.

“The idea is to create both residential housing and commercial space that is accessible for real people,” Ms. DeGarmo told The Chronicle Tuesday.…