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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Lake George Town Supervisor Dennis Dickinson wants to revisit the question of consumer fireworks sales in Warren County. Those are the so-called “sparklers” sold around the Fourth of July for private use, typically under tents by traveling vendors.

Mr. Dickinson is on the agenda of the County Governmental Operations & Advocacy meeting — Monday, July 19, at noon.

In New York State, “Sparkling Devices” …

Summer Home Issue Estate sale & auction: The Woods. LG: Boat conked out; on to rocks; our fate. They grow mushrooms. Big doings at Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls. Krantz Cottage: LG retreat is a first for Ronald McDonald House. Dan Ladd: Adk. Jeep Invasion a great start. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Jim Tracy, a Fort Edward native who spent 10 years as a reporter for The Post-Star, has written a new book: Sworn to Silence: The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies Case.

Garrow’s Adirondack rampage in the summer of 1973 in which he stabbed four people to death including a woman he abducted, raped and whose body he hid, and then eluded an …

Editor’s note: This is the 25th anniversary of when the late Frank Leonbruno began writing — and The Chronicle began publishing — the chapters that would become his classic book Lake George Reflections: Island History and Lore. This summer we are reprinting weekly chapters with the permission of Frank’s daughters Gail and Jane.

Rush Island is a state-owned island located …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Rock Hill Bakehouse — in the Shirt Factory annex building on Curran Lane in Glens Falls — reopened Tuesday for in-house dining. The vegan cafe had been closed for Covid since March 21, 2020.

“We spent the past 13 months doing curbside and giving away free bread,” owner Matt Funiciello told The Chronicle.

He said the plan Tuesday was to open at 8 a.m. …