The Huletts Current

While work continues in Lake George Village to smother Asian clams with benthic barriers, a parallel effort to survey other suitable Asian clam habitat for their presence was organized by the Lake George Asian Clam Rapid Response Task Force (LGACRRTF). Survey efforts show over 60 clean sites with no Asian clams and two small infestations [...]

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Little Asian Clam Wants to Stay The Post Star reports on the spread of the Asian clam. The Tongue Range Hike The Times Union tells about the difficulty of the Tongue Mountain Range. Ticonderoga Successfully Attracts a New Tractor Business Ticonderoga is doing those things that Whitehall should be. Read the Press Republican. Rabid Raccoon [...]

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In July 2011, the LGA installed a diversion structure to direct stormwater into a large Aqua-Swirl unit at Rt. 9N and English Brook. The Lake George Association announced recently that the Helen V. Froehlich Foundation has awarded the 126-year old conservation organization a grant of $450,000 for lake-saving initiatives. This is the LGA’s eighteenth consecutive [...]

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Dan Davies, left, and Jim Casaccio, right, have joined the Lake George Association Board of Directors. The Lake George Association has appointed James Casaccio and Daniel Davies to its board of directors. James lives in Bolton Landing with his wife Tenee and has 18 years of experience in the human resources and software field. He [...]

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To learn more about where you can pickup bags in Huletts and drop off trash, read the Post Star.

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As I’ve shared earlier, the Lake George Association is running a series of ads this summer spotlighting individuals who are contributing to improving the quality of Lake George. This is a great series because it demonstrates that anyone and everyone can help in the effort. I’ll run all of these ads in the weeks ahead. [...]

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Over 30 people, including many children, enjoyed having the Lake George Association’s Floating classroom come to Huletts today. The Friends of Historic Huletts Landing sponsored today’s visit by the LGA’s Floating Classroom. Everyone had a great time and learned much about the lake’s ecology. Thanks go out to everyone at the LGA, FHHL, and even [...]

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Lee Woodruff will be the featured speaker at this year’s annual meeting of the Lake George Association, on Friday, August 19, at 10 am, at the Lake George Club. Lee is a New York Times bestselling author and the wife of former ABC news co-anchor Bob Woodruff, who was seriously injured covering the Iraq war [...]

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The Lake George Association’s Floating Classroom, will return to Huletts on Friday, July 22nd at 10:00 am, courtesy of the Friends of Historic Huletts Landing who is sponsoring this event. A donation of at least $10 is suggested to help defray the $300 cost. The sign up sheet is in the Post Office and will [...]

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My grandparents talked about using “wooden nickels” when they were young, but here is an actual Lake George wooden nickel. It’s made of very thin balsa wood and looks like it was issued for use in Lake George in 1938. (73 years ago.) I scanned the back also. I have to credit my brother, Al, [...]

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Marie Portela (left) and her daughter Pat (right) pose with Neal Vandorsten (center) in front of the airplane that took them on a sightseeing tour above Lake George (and Huletts Landing) on Sunday. You couldn’t have asked for a better day to go for a plane ride. After winning the ticket for a plane ride [...]

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Looking directly across Lake George from Huletts, it appeared that something looked different this summer. Then I realized something was different. Sometime since the summer of 2010, a ridge very close to Deer’s Leap collapsed and fell down the mountain. Here is a view from the middle of Lake George with the area circled in [...]

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No NY Giants in Albany This Summer The Giants make it officially. There will be no training camp in Albany this summer. Read what John Mara told a local business owner in the NY Post. Fort Ticonderoga to Show Artwork Collection 50 of Fort Ticonderoga’s most important artworks are on display in a single exhibit [...]

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