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By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Dianne Shugrue, 63, who has headed Glens Falls Hospital for the past eight years, will retire at the end of December.

“I feel like I’m leaving the hospital in a really good spot,” Ms. Shugrue told The Chronicle Tuesday.

The hospital’s affiliation with Albany Medical Center took effect last year.

“It’s really going well. I feel that the hospital’s well-positioned to be able to continue …

Editor’s note: Max Frost, 27-year-old son of Chronicle owners Mark Frost and Sandra Hutchinson, was our foreign correspondent in 2016-17 when he was living in India and then traveling, mostly in Asia.

His weekly reports in The Chronicle were hugely popular and drew packed crowds when he twice spoke at Crandall Public Library.

Last year Max and his friends Max and Billy launched their own news company.

On Aug. 27, …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Father Scott VanDerveer, 46, the new parish priest at St. Mary’s Church in Glens Falls, doesn’t fully take the reins until mid-September, but he’s already plugged into the Hometown, U.S.A. landscape.

He says, “There’s a quote by one of the recent popes — he’s a saint now, St. John the 23rd. He wants every parish to be like a fountain in the middle of …

Labor Day Issue Our 41st Anniversary Issue! GF Hospital chief to retire. Dynamic young priest takes reins at St. Mary’s. Max Frost in Ukraine. Solar hillside south of Amsterdam. Democrat Carrie Woerner against extending eviction moratorium; ‘Don’t punish the landlords’ Elise Stefanik: It’s a boy, Samuel! Return of ADK Independence Music Fest. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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The population of Saratoga County grew by nearly 16,000 people in the last 10 years.

Washington County’s population shrunk by 1,914, as every town and village except Hudson Falls and surrounding Kingsbury lost residents.

Warren County’s count was virtually unchanged. It went from 65,707 in 2010 to 65,737 in 2020. The rise of 30 people in percentage terms was 0.0%.

Glens Falls, Queensbury and Lake George Village were the county’s …