Washington County Fair starts Monday! Gunshots, injury in Glens Falls. Adirondack Trail Makers. Carrie Woerner: Horse racing is key to economy & public loves it; ‘small minority’ seeks to ban it. F.W. Webb digs in its heels. Crandall Library gets $500,000 donation from Qby. native to honor his late mother, 2 aunts. Tim Drawbridge to exit; GF seeks Communications Chief, $50,000. Twin Bridges won’t buy land in Moreau Industrial Park. …
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Yankee Boating: $2.5-million storage facility
By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer
Yankee Boating — the 57-year-old family-owned Lake George marina — is building a $2.5-million storage facility across from Roaring Brook Ranch on Route 9N west of Northway Exit 21.
Owner Andrew Brodie said he’s been approved for three buildings. He’ll have indoor, outdoor, and now heated indoor storage, “which I don’t believe anyone else in the area is providing.”
He said Yankee currently can …
Read More »Rachael’s Bread is on the rise — started in 2020 from necessity, now buys former Mohican Grange
By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer
Rachael Lujbli launched Rachael’s Bread during the pandemic in 2020 out of necessity — financial need and stress relief.
Now the business has grown so big it needs to move out of her house.
Rachael and Jennifer Islas have purchased the former Mohican Grange building on Ridge Road at Oneida Corners in Queensbury.
On the first floor will be Jennifer’s Zumba and yoga studio. …
Read More »Former Sheriff York vs. current Sheriff LaFarr
By Zander Frost & Mark Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer & Editor
Former Warren County Sheriff Bud York announced a write-in candidacy seeking to oust current Sheriff Jim LaFarr in November.
Mr. York, who served three terms as Sheriff before choosing not to run four years ago, says he is officials and citizens.
He said two people who ran Mr. LaFarr’s last campaign had “wanted me to primary him. They totally …
Read More »Strough: Realtors, Jim Siplon seek better site for F.W. Webb
By Zander Frost & Mark Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer & Editor
Queensbury Town Supervisor John Strough told The Chronicle Tuesday that an effort is under way to find an alternate site for the distribution center that F.W. Webb wants to build on Quaker Road.
“We have two realtors that are very good, well known in the area, working on it,” Mr. Strough said. “People are searching. Even Jim Siplon, I …
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