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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, Jan. 25, was a perfect and rare winter day on Lake George. The ice was clear and not yet snowed upon.

Beth Maher, 68, and her friends Scott Robertson and Rick Morse went to Million Dollar Beach to do some Nordic skating.

“I think the really attractive thing about the skating experience is that it’s so limited,” Dr. Maher told The Chronicle.

“It’s …

Chronicle reporter Ben Westcott writes…In a ceremony Friday at Glens Falls High School, legendary basketball alum Joe Girard III, New York State’s all-time leading scorer, had his No. 11 jersey retired in front of his hometown fans.

He was joined under the spotlight at center court by his father Joe Girard Jr., mother Arleen Girard, grandmother Nancy Girard, and long-time girlfriend Moonya Reszytniak.

“This is something that I could only …

By Caroline Martindale, Chronicle Staff Writer

Camp Little Notch in West Fort Ann says it is making headway toward its $300,000 fundraising goal to meet an April mortgage deadline — and that local businesses are helping in other ways too.

The former Girl Scout summer camp, established in 1939, was purchased 15 years ago and privatized by the Friends of Camp Little Notch.

“It was a group of former campers …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The five-phase proposal to create an alpine village experience called The Woods at West Mountain over a period of about a decade came before the Queensbury Planning Board for a second time Thursday.

While no action was taken, the public weighed in, some commending the project, others expressing concerns about it.

“We need to support our town’s only ski resort so it can continue …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe opines: Fearless, fully committed, saucy — the young adults of Glens Falls have taken over the stage and made it SING with their true-to-heart production of the Jonathan Larson musical Rent. It opened last weekend and continues this week at the Wood Theater in downtown.

Urban, gritty, soul-wrecking, loving, exuberant and flipped-out. It’s righteously bold, and bawdy — be warned — as is well and …