Lake George house available at auction
Got some spare change rattling around in your cupholder? Then there’s a Lake George house that just might have your name on it. Actually, “house” might be a bit of an understatement. The...
View ArticleAnd First Prize goes to…
I wrote for today’s newspaper about the First Prize Center — that long-dilapidated site in the West Albany section of Colonie. The story is after the jump. Walmart. Kmart. Home Depot. Lowe’s. Whole...
View ArticleAn award-winning home on the Lake George shore
Balzer Hodge Tuck, a Saratoga Springs firm, has won a merit award from the local AIA for its design of the home pictured above.The house at Northwest Bay was built last year on the site of an abandoned...
View ArticleStorefronts: One community store dies, another opens
The Pioneer Market, a co-op in Troy launched with great hope about a year ago, formally called it quits Tuesday night, when members voted to dissolve. The co-op never had a profitable month. Some...
View ArticleA reason the Troy food co-op failed
I wrote for this past Sunday’s newspaper about the new community-owned department store in Saranac Lake, with a comparison, of sorts, to the now-defunct food co-op in downtown Troy. (Incidentally, the...
View ArticleLandmark ruling by Adirondack Park Agency
The APA approved plans for the Adirondack Club and Resort in Tupper Lake last week, 7 years after it was first proposed. Located around the Big Tupper ski area, the 6,000-acre project calls for...
View ArticleHouse of the Week: Adirondack Colonial in Lake Luzerne
This week’s house in Lake Luzerne is listed as an Adirondack Colonial, but has many farmhouse details as well as a host of special features. The home at 276 Scofield Road was built in 1994 on 2.5...
View ArticleHouse of the Week: Log cabin in Warrensburg
I chose a cozy, sunny, out-of-the-way log home this week. The home at 145 Moose Ridge Drive in Warrensburg is 1,520 square feet. It stands in a development of log homes called Mountain Top Estates off...
View ArticleA win for citizen action
When you’re from the North Country, you expect frost heaves and potholes. But when things got really bad on 28N between Newcomb and Long Lake – a state road the state seemed to be ignoring, the locals...
View ArticlePlaces and spaces in the news
A round up of news that caught my eye and tidbits you may have missed… Read about the trailer city at Luther Forest Tech Park here. Even though GlobalFoundries started making chips at what is now...
View ArticleEnd of an era
The Grand Union was my grocery store, growing up. If there was a grocery store at all in the little Adirondack towns around me, it was a Grand Union. The big stores – Price Chopper and Hannaford –...
View ArticleTaller buildings in Lake George
Ah, the benefits of institutional memory. In October, 2002 I covered the debate over the Fort William Henry Hotel. The owners proposed a five-story hotel at the historic site, taller than anything else...
View ArticleA man’s castle is not his rental property
On the battle over whether or not a Bolton Landing homeowner can rent his house for parties, Chris Churchill is succinct: The town bungled this thing from the start. See the full story here.
View ArticlePlaces and spaces in the news
It’s a newsy day in real estate, folks. The two biggest stories are in Saratoga and Albany where Columbia Development Companies yesterday announced plans for a $48.5 million renovation of the former...
View ArticleCastle for sale on Lake George for boat loads of money
Last month, the Advocate, Chris Churchill, brought you the story of John Lavender, who was fighting with the town of Bolton for the right to rent his castle. Apparently Lavender has thrown in the...
View ArticleA home becomes a restaurant on Lake George
Bolton native Edward Foy and his wife Jennifer have opened the Chateau on the Lake, a restaurant in a former private residence on Lake George. The 3,500-square-foot lakefront home, located at 11...
View ArticleNewwwwwwwwwwwws
Some kids showed up at Brian Holloway’s house. Not the ones accused of trashing it though. A guy who wants to build a big sports complex next to the Memory Gardens cemetery in Colonie is getting some...
View ArticleBizarre property listings
It’s a reach to market a house based on the fact a celebrity used to live in the neighborhood, and just ridiculous when that celebrity is dead, but I have to admit I opened the email advertising a...
View ArticleDialects
I’m fascinated by dialects, how as Americans we speak English differently – heck, as New Yorkers we speak English with such variety. I was raised in the Adirondacks, where we sound a little different...
View ArticlePlaces and spaces in the news
Check out this slideshow of homes for sale in Malta. GlobalFoundries is expanding and contracting. Saratoga Springs is a nice place to go to college (duh). The Saratoga Race Course is raising admission...
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