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Happy Valentine’s Day! 3,000 attended Constantino’s free MMA event at Cool Arena. Lake George is frozen. Fort Ann’s Tyler Mattison now on Detroit Tigers’ big league roster. Retired City Clerk Bob Curtis will run in Ward 5 as Republican. Warren County OK’s $2.5-million in Oc Tax for ORDA Ski Bowl project; some opposition. GF’s Kellen Driscoll commits to RPI, to play basketball. Gore skiing fatality. Adventure Family Fun Center sells …

The Post-Star was unable to publish last week’s Tuesday and Thursday paper editions on time due to a ‘Cybersecurity’ event, its parent company Lee Enterprises says.

It also curtailed its digital editions.

The newspaper wrote on its website Monday, Feb. 10, “Delivery of The Post-Star’s Tuesday and Thursday papers was delayed until Saturday. Its Tuesday and Thursday E-editions were also delayed, until Friday, but the Saturday E-edition was able to …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: The 15 Democratic county chairs of New York’s 21st Congressional District announced Tuesday their “unanimous support for longtime North Country resident Blake Gendebien as the candidate they will nominate when and if a Special Election is called” to fill Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s seat after her expected confirmation as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

The announcement apparently quashes the candidacies of Dylan Hewitt, the …

By Maury Thompson, Special to The Chronicle

Blake Gendebien, the dairy farmer from Lisbon in St. Lawrence County endorsed Tuesday by the 15 Democratic county chairs, raised $266,602 in December and had $252,341 in his campaign fund as of Dec. 31, according to a campaign finance report filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Democratic county chairs said Tuesday they selected him to be their nominee in the expected House race …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: “The headline should read, ‘Stop the Madness’,” Warren County Republican Chair Tim McNulty says of fevered rumors about the Republican nominee will be to fill Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s seat when she presumably becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Mr. McNulty laments, “It’s just getting to the point that we’ve got candidates and insiders and other people not involved in the process putting out …