Deadline to apply: March 1, 2019 Seasonal: May through August 2019. Hours and days may fluctuate based on programs and events. Start and end date flexible. Full time. Compensation $11.50 per hour. Position Summary: The Lake George Association is an environmental not-for-profit located in Lake George, NY, whose actions support water quality protection, scientific monitoring, education…
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LGA Awarded Grant to Prevent Spread of Aquatic Invasive Species in LG
The Lake George Association has been awarded an Aquatic Invasive Species Spread Prevention Grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program for the 2019 season. The $5,300 grant will be used to continue the Lake George Association’s invasive species public education and outreach programs, focusing on: Personal interactions with visitors and boaters throughout the season at…
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Reducing salt usage in Lake George begins with you
By Kristen Wilde Director of Education Now that the New Year has arrived and winter with it, the Lake George Association would like to offer some tips on snow and ice maintenance on your property (or at your business) so those actions do not contribute to the salt load in the Lake. And, like the…
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Slow Down, You Move Too Fast …
We’re trying to make the Lake water quality last With apologies to Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, there’s an important program starting this winter on Route 9N that will slow (and potentially stop) the increase in salt in one major road corridor along the shore of Lake George. Starting this winter, the New York State…
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Lake George Communities Win Multiple Regional Economic Development Grants
Congratulations to our partner municipalities for the awards announced today in Albany at the Regional Economic Development Council ceremony: Town of Bolton: $600,000 for Rogers Memorial Park Waterfront Sustainability improvements – something your LGA is supporting with money toward the grant’s local match requirement. Town of Bolton: $1,000,000 for improvements to the Town’s wastewater treatment process, reducing the volume…
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Many Hands Stop Stormwater In Hague; Lake-Saving Project Completed
This time of year, Lake George Association Project Manager Randy Rath spends much of his time in the field, directing and managing Lake-Saving Projects on behalf of the LGA and its members. Lake-Saving Projects are those that the LGA performs to make positive changes on properties to protect the Lake’s water quality, and to give…
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Diamond Point Resident Carla Burhoe Elected President of LGA Board
Peter Menzies elected as Executive Vice President Diamond Point business owner Carla Burhoe has been elected President of the Lake George Association’s Board of Directors for 2018-19. Carla and her husband, Tom, own Canoe Island Lodge in Diamond Point, a resort that was founded by Carla’s mother and father, Jane and Bill Busch, in 1946….
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What You Can Do To Help Prevent Harmful Algal Blooms On Lake George
By Walt Lender Lake George Association Executive Director Harmful Algal Blooms – the term is scary. And the reality of a bloom is not any better. If you have a strong stomach you can look up on YouTube a time-lapse video of a bloom forming and taking over a harbor. Very unpleasant and potentially dangerous….
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Download the LGA’s March 2018 Newsletter
Among the stories in the March 2018 Lake George Association newsletter: A $54,500 grant to the LGA from the Lake Champlain Basin Program will solve a water quality concern in Huletts Landing; What the LGA is doing about harmful algal blooms and how the new New York State program will be a major help for…
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LGA Members Get Discount On Stoddard Lake George Book at Chapman Museum
Few artists have captured the beauty of Lake George as did Seneca Ray Stoddard. Now, you can own a curated collection of some of Stoddard’s best images in a new book from the experts at the Chapman Historical Museum. And LGA members get a 10% discount on the purchase price! During the 1870s and 1880s,…
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