By David Cederstrom, Chronicle Staff Writer
The 11th annual Hemmings Motor News Concours D’Elegance car show is set for Friday through Sunday, Sept. 15-17, in Lake George.
It will feature rare vehicles including a Tucker 48 said to have sold for more than $1.3-million at auction last January, and a 1919 LA-10 Stand & Drive electric delivery truck.
Jim Menneto, publisher and president of Hemmings, told The Chronicle that the …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
The Adirondack Independence Music Festival drew an impressive crowd and set a new bar for the Festival Commons Space at the Charles R. Wood Park in Lake George.
The two-day event headlined by the Vermont jam-band Twiddle was Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 2 and 3. It drew about 2,500 paid admissions, promoter Dave Ehmann of Lake …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
Shortly after the tragic boating death of 8-year-old Charlotte McCue in the hours after Log Bay Day last July 25, authorities were already discussing how to end once and for all the rowdy annual gathering on Lake George on the last Monday of July.
“This was not a knee-jerk reaction. It was an eight-month process,” …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth,Chronicle News Editor
Local musician Rich Ortiz is in the midst of his busy season, but he still finds time to catch monster bass.
And a recent impromptu outing on an unnamed area lake could result in his photo being on the cover of the national Angler Magazine.
“I just had my first-ever article published in the Upstate New York Angler about bass fishing, and heard through the …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will use solar-powered “prism beacons” — 360-degree flashes of light from sunup to sundown — to try to deter gulls and ducks this summer from coming to Million Dollar Beach and swimming area in Lake George Village.
DEC says the popular beach will “safely” open for the season on Memorial Day Weekend.
The prism beacon plan …
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