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Zander: NY rakes in billions on sports gambling exploiting addiction

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

I tried mobile sports betting for the first time three weeks ago before the NFL playoff season.

A friend referred me through the popular FanDuel sportsbook.

I’m a seasoned sports fan, and I’m a regular fantasy football player, but I had always held off on real gambling.

But after a few weeks on this app, I’m convinced that this will be the next Opioid-esque …

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Luce family: Youtheatre has ended its run

“After over forty years, YOUTHEATRE is taking its final bow,” read the message posted Sunday afternoon signed by founders Mickey and Sharon Luce and their daughters Amity and Lanni.

“We are grateful for all who created the music and magic, and for those who were part of the madness and for making miracles. You will live in our hearts, and we are eternally grateful for all the memories.”

The Chronicle …

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61st Lake George Winter Carnival opens!

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The 61st Lake George Winter Carnival kicks off this weekend with opening ceremonies, the annual Winter Carnival Parade including guest float the Oscar Mayer “Weinermobile” and many regional fire companies, the first of two-this-year Outhouse Race weekends, a new “Jeepin Duck Hunt Scavenger Hunt” by 518 Jeep-in’ Club, a chili cookoff, and much more.

“We’re excited,” said Lake George Winter Carnival’s Nancy Nichols on …

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LGA ‘Breaking News’: ‘Herbicide Proposal is Back’; LGPC’s Dave Wick calls it scare tactic

“LGA Breaking News: Controversial Herbicide Proposal is Back,” headlined a “Call To Action” press release Tuesday from the Lake George Association.

The LGA elaborated: “Despite the opposition of more than 4,500 concerned citizens last summer, and a pending Feb. 17 hearing in New York State Supreme Court in Warren County, the Lake George Park Commission is once again submitting an application to the Adirondack Park Agency and the New York …

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‘Shake, Rattle & Roll,’ coming in May!

30 years in the making, Dale Baldwin’s grand plan nears fruition at corner of Routes 149, 9L, Qby

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

If it seems like forever that people have wondered what’s happening with the handsome wooden buildings gradually taking shape at the busy intersection of Routes 149 and 9L in Queensbury, it’s because, in a way, it has.

“He’s had this idea for, like, 30 years,” Travis Baldwin …

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