And the Academy Award for Science and Techology in 1961 went to — Sylvania Electric Co.’s Sun Gun, powered by batteries manufactured at General Electric Co.’s Hudson Falls plant. The Sun Gun was a hand-held, high-powered professional photographic lighting system. For an encore in 1962, the Hudson Falls plant manufactured…

Lake George residents were hopeful that that government would make good on a promise to improve infrastructure. “Highway commissioner Connery made a recent visit to East Lake George, says our correspondent at that place, and he expressed his determination to have good roads this summer if work will do it,”…

It might be true that it is better to teach a man to fish rather than give a man a fish. But these two downtown Glens Falls entrepreneurs were too busy with business pursuits to catch their own fish — at least judging by the number of times that L.K…

Glens Falls musicians traveled to show moral support to their peers at Whitehall. “Last evening fifteen members of St. Mary’s Cornet Band left here on the 6:40 train for Whitehall to attend the concert of the Juvenile Band given there last night,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on…

Ladies were admitted free and provided chairs for seating at a charity baseball game on June 11, 1889 at the new YMCA athletic grounds on Sanford Street in Glens Falls. Admission for men was 25 cents — the equivalent of $8.05 in 2022 dollars — and 10 cents for boys…

The Mansion House hotel was the first local business to display a United States flag when word reached Glens Falls the evening of Aug. 14, 1861, about 60 hours after the Confederete Army attacked Fort Sumpter, starting the Civil War. “When hoisted the flag was greeted with cheers from the…

Lake George hotel operators were making improvements in preparation for the 1889 tourism season. “The Fort William Henry Hotel is undergoing improvements in the way of painting, the erection of buildings on the grounds, and the introduction of floral and shrubbery decorations,” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on…

It was fair season, but the weather left much to be desired in early September 1888. “Shivering mortals sigh for overcoats and flannels. Ugh!” The Morning Star of Glens Falls reported on Sept. 7. There had been a heavy frost at Kingsbury on Sept.5. The first frost at Queensbury was…

Women workers at the Ticonderoga cotton mill raised money to cover the expenses of the Grand Army of the Republic Post Alfred Weed Decoration Day ceremony in 1875. The women also crafted wild flower arrangements in the shapes of wreathes, crosses and bouquets to place on the graves of local…