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Women in Business Issue Stefanik & Castelli on Abortion. Break-in, gun theft, arrests. Step by step: How Lindsey Meade started her small business. Board game tavern. Chris Patten’s apartments going up. 3 restaurants close in southern Wash. Co. Glens Falls Hometown Thanksgiving, in person! Boo 2 You, GF! downtown fest. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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Guns stolen in pre-dawn break-in at Calamity Jane’s gun store.

The Chronicle’s Mark Frost reports:

A break-in early this morning resulted in the theft of handguns from Calamity Jane’s gun shop on Dix Avenue in Hudson Falls.
Harold Spiezio, Senior Investigator for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, said on the scene shortly before noon, that the theft involved “mostly handguns…possibly all handguns.
“They forcibly broke into some cabinetry to remove guns,” he said. “It appears it was targeted.”
Investigator Spiezio

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GF Habitat plans 25-unit Qby. condo; thought to be a world first

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

You know how Habitat for Humanity builds houses for families?

Picture the classic scene: A swarm of community volunteers hammers boards, muds sheetrock, raises walls. The beneficiary family puts in “sweat equity” on the way to home ownership. The house is built. A key is handed over, threshold crossed, maybe a whoop of celebration.

Adam Feldman, the executive director of Glens Falls Area Habitat …

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Clean Air Action sues on Biochar; CEO: ‘It’s going to get dismissed’

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Clean Air Action Network of Glens Falls announced it has sued the Moreau Town Planning Board, Saratoga Biochar Solutions and its CEO Raymond Apy.

In a press release, CAAN contends that new information should cause the planning board to rescind its March declaration “that the project would have no significant environmental impacts.”

Mr. Apy, contacted by The Chronicle, said, “It’s going to get …

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Wowed by how deeply that movie hit

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

I — and I think many of the others who were in the theater when it happened — will remember the seventh annual Adirondack Film Festival for one stunning, silent moment.

Friday, 11 a.m., they screened actor David Strathairn in Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski. It’s the screen version of his one-man show on the life of Jan Karski, who tried during …

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