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July is vacation time and hopefully you are not sitting at your computer but instead enjoying these truly hot, hazy, crazy days of summer. For that reason in July we publish TI Life ‘Lite'. And to help you enjoy the summer, do check this article as we share a new slide show of the Thousand Islands, created by Ian Coristine with the music of Great Lake Swimmers...

A proposed anchor tourism attraction for the Thousand Islands is a huge step closer to opening its doors on Brockville’s...

A "microburst" swept through the Thousand Islands last month, uprooting trees, damaging cottages and leaving some island...

The Antique Boat Museum's 46th Annual Boat Show in Clayton, held over the July 30th - August 1st weekend, attracted over 7000 visitors

At roughly 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 4, Algobay had made its way past Singer Castle and began drifting out of the channe...

I read about the “Mystery of Maple Island” my very first season on the island. So I’m long familiar with the legend that...

The schooner Roseway tied up to the dock at Frink’s Park in Clayton, New York, on June 25th. It was a cool, dreary, drip...

It was one of those “hot summer days” when I first watched Thousand Island Park Now and Then.  The thirty-minute DV...

Consistent with our mission of raising the bar, Thousand Island Life seeks to recognize exceptional quality. A new enter...

A new book by Rex Ennis...

Ian Coristine has constantly told his friends, that "raising the bar" in the Thousand Islands is our Number One task and...

Beijing,China-Vancouver,BC-Chicago & Brockville-Clayton These are just a few of the stops on The Great Lake Swimmers’ 2010 Tour.

As the first decade of the new millennium has passed, this writer has met many people in our community who ask “what doe...

Clayton's Fred Schmitt has accepted the Board of Trustees’ offer to succeed John MacLean as Executive Director of the Antique Boat Museum.

Most folks on the River know me as the Executive Director of Save The River, but I also wear a few additional hats – yea...

It is early in the shipping season, however there is a lot happening in the region related to the St. Lawrence Seaway. ...

Every spring begins as the birds migrate, the snow melts and the little white and green tug boat sitting in Massena, New...

Kim Lunman publishes the premiere issue of an annual magazine on the Thousand Islands.

After finishing a documentary DVD, a book, and then an updated version of our movie, we were pretty sure that we had com...

The news in the last few years coming from Albany would bring a challenge to even the greatest of optimists. One look at...

I’m editing a cookbook.  Those of you who know me well must be savoring the irony. Don’t get me wrong – I like to e...

As the jacket notes describe: "most charming...

Despite the intentions of the Poker Run, it is frequently cited by environmentalists as an example of conspicuous consumption and pollution.

...the season would go in the books as one of the worst since the early 1960s in terms of tonnage. The 25% decrease in cargo volume ...

Consistent with our mission of raising the bar, Thousand Island Life seeks to recognize special tributes.

It looks like it could be the end of an era for the last antique wooden tour boat in the Thousand Islands. The Morrisani...

However, once the sun has set, the St. Lawrence River has, amidst all its beauty, a very dark underbelly that continues to this day.

After close to a year spent collecting information, answering questions, copying documents...

Finding a particular photograph, identifying an individual or an historic fact is like finding “gold” to a researcher. ...

In 1984 there were three famous men best known for fighting evil spirits which had taken New York City by storm. They to...

Lynn Beahm, at Arcadia Publishing, sent us several photos of postcards and a description of Arcadia’s recent:  Post...

Great Lake Swimmers are coming June 6th! Celebrating the Maritime Discovery Center of the Thousand Islands. Eighteen m...

    The following was received in mid-April: Dear Susan, ...

A  documentary that takes viewers beneath the St. Lawrence River to a wreck at the bottom the Brockville Narrows is...

One of the unique elements in the Thousand Islands region is our ability to travel between our two countries with relati...

In March we announced that Ian Coristine's photographs were featured in the March

In January the River took its leave, pulled a thick white blanket over itself, and rested. Freed from the turmoil of thr...

Patricia and Robert Mondore received good news this

Ice on the mighty St. Lawrence is beginning to thaw, but as light snow fell on the morning of February 22, nearly thirty...

We were going to contact you about going airboating with us, but we had a small mishap a few weeks ago.

The Thousand Islands Biological Station (TIBS) is located on Governor's Island, near Clayton, NY, and is an important re...

  Some sleep in queen-sized beds on luxury yachts, some sleep under the Thousand Islands sky in a sleeping bag, but...

A “Monster” muskie was caught in the Thousand Islands on November 28th by Ottawa resident Dale MacNair who was with his ...

PRESCOTT: The Canadian Empress is about to set sail from the Fort Town to its next port of call - Brockville - with passengers from all over North America

In listening to the Inauguration, I was struck by our new President's call for individual responsibility. As I thought a...

February, the dead of winter, and here we are thinking spring. We asked Roland Pootmans and his wife, Danielle, if they ...

Snow has covered summer cottage roofs, boats have been shrink wrapped and placed in marina parking lots and ice is formi...

So you think you're a dedicated Thousand Islander? Dr. Dick Withington (also known as Doc) is enjoying his fourth consec...