The Huletts Current

The Lake George Association has constructed a new sediment pond at English Brook. The pond is designed to capture hundreds of tons of sediment before it enters Lake George. The Lake George Association has completed the construction of a new sediment basin at the mouth of English Brook in the town of Lake George at [...]

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Last week, crews cleaned out the sediment that has built up in a retention basin on Hague Brook. This pond on the upper part of the brook was originally constructed by the LGA in 2006. Over 45 dump trucks full of material was removed from two different retention basins on the brook. This past week, [...]

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The Lake George Land Conservancy has announced the hiring of Chad Knisely as the Land Conservancy’s new Land Protection and Stewardship Specialist. Prior to joining LGLC, Chad worked as acting director for Grand River Partners in Painesville, Ohio, where he managed land protection projects, watershed planning, community outreach and organizational fundraising. As LGLC’s Land Protection [...]

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NY State Senator Betty Little (R) Queensbury and Huletts Landing Volunteer Fire Company President Arthur Borin accept $5,000 contribution from Robert Holliday, VP/GM AT&T Upstate NY. AT&T today held a community event in Huletts Landing outlining recent mobile broadband wireless coverage enhancements. (PRNewsFoto/AT&T Inc., Eric Jenks) HULETTS LANDING, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — As [...]

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Michael Abrahamson, LGA lake steward, inspects a boat for invasive species at the Dunham’s Bay launch this summer. Dunham’s was a new location for the program this year. The Lake George Association (LGA) has released preliminary results from the 2011 Lake Steward program. The LGA has managed training, hiring, supervision and reporting for the Lake [...]

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The Lake George Association ran a series of ads this summer spotlighting individuals who are contributing to improving the quality of Lake George. Because things have been quiet lately, I thought I would continue with some of the individuals that were profiled. Here is Peter Leyh’s LGA ad. (Click on the picture to follow the [...]

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The Lake George Association announced today that Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company is donating an additional $20,000 to the LGA for the West Brook Conservation Initiative (WBCI) project, located on the former Gaslight Village property. This gift brings Glens Falls National Bank’s total commitment to the project to $25,000. “In all of our [...]

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60 Minute’s Andy Rooney (and our neighbor on Lake George) signed off this evening for the last time. To learn more about Rooney and his family’s home on Lake George, read this piece.

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Whitehall Times: Finch and Chubb and Marina to Close The Whitehall Times reports that the Finch and Chubb restaurant is closing. But that’s OK; folks can always go to the Silver Diner…oh…wait… Lake George Village Underwater The Lake George Mirror has some amazing pictures of Irene damage at the southern end of the lake. (Page [...]

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LGA Volunteer and board member Salim Amersi works as part of a LGA beach clean-up effort after Tropical Storm Irene. Tropical Storm Irene left large amounts of debris on the beaches at the southern end of Lake George, and due to the wide-spread damage caused by the storm, officials weren’t able to attend to it [...]

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Walt Lender, executive director of the LGA, comments at a public hearing before the Warren County Board of Supervisors, about the new invasive species transport law they recently passed. The LGA provided information to the supervisors which led to the drafting of the new law. The county law is based on a law that is [...]

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Walt Lender, executive director of the Lake George Association, testifies at a New York State Assembly hearing on invasive species on Tuesday, September 13th. Mr. Lender spoke out in support of laws to prohibit and regulate the transport and sale of invasive species, both terrestrial and aquatic. Lake George Association Executive Director Walt Lender testified [...]

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Irene Damage Reports The Post Star reports that over 100 boats were swamped by Irene and Rep. Gibson says that Washington County should get FEMA aid as well. Vermont Roads The NY Times tell us what the storm did to Vermont roads. Gov. Cuomo Suspends Rules to Rebuild No APA or DEC rules for Irene [...]

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One-hundred-twenty-seven members and friends of the Lake George Association gathered at the Lake George Club on Friday, August 19 to learn about the organization’s lake protection and conservation efforts, elect new directors of the board, and receive program updates for the past year. Here are some of the highlights of this years meeting. Lee Woodruff [...]

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