Monday, December 23, 2024

Blog

Talking jobs: EDC speaker on the bad news (& some hope)

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

“Today I’ll be largely the bearer of bad news,” Dr. Rachel Sederberg told the Warren County Economic Development Corporation’s annual luncheon last Friday at the Great Escape Lodge.

Dr. Sederberg’s topic was “The Demographic Drought,” or “Bridging the Gap in our Labor Force.”

The research manager with the consulting firm Emsi Burning Glass in Boston brought sobering data to the gathering of business leaders, …

Read More »

Our June 23 front page

Graduation issue Luzerne has lost its restaurants. Spongy moths — formerly gypsy — abound. Queensbury’s Brigid Duffy to West Point; Air Force: Tyler Spaulding. Return of the Adirondack Wine & Food Festival. Lake George Village: 1st public dissolution meeting. Talking jobs: EDC speaker on the bad news (& some hope). Hudson Falls’s new Moran-Derby Park. Ham Radio Day atop Prospect Mtn., June 25-26. Nettle Meadow’s new tasting room/eatery. Concerts, comedy, …

Read More »

Cathy’s take on South Street plan unveiling

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

More than 60 people attended the Monday afternoon update by the City of Glens Falls on its $10 million NYS Downtown Revitalization Initiative project, held in the community room at Crandall Public Library.

Glens Falls Mayor Bill Collins, Development Director Jeff Flagg and guest speakers, Larry Novik of Bonacio Construction’s Spring City Development of Glens Falls, and Scott Townsend, principal architect at SWBR in …

Read More »

Glens Falls shows its South Street plan

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

I attended Monday night’s public presentation at the Park Theater in which Mayor Bill Collins and cohorts unveiled their long-awaited South Street plan to spend much of the $10-million competitive Downtown Redevelopment Grant that Glens Falls won in 2016 from the State of New York.

Earlier in the day they also did a presentation at Crandall Public Library.

Mayor Collins, the city’s Development Director Jeff …

Read More »

North Queensbury & Bay Ridge EMS are merging

By Ben Kinne, Special to The Chronicle

Stronger Together. That is the motto being used by North Queensbury Rescue Squad and Bay Ridge Rescue Squad as they begin the process of consolidating from two separate agencies into one.

The two-step process has already begun, with the agencies agreeing to share paid staff and management teams, which started on June 1st..

Final consolidation and operation change to one agency is expected …

Read More »