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Shaun Hazlitt’s Southpaw Bistro sets debut in Glens Falls

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

When Shaun Hazlitt cuts the ribbon next Friday, Sept. 13, to launch his newly re-imagined Southpaw Bistro at the former Craft on 9 on South Street, he’ll represent a lineage of Glens Falls chefs that started with the late Shawn Whalen and his storied Bistro Tallulah.

Shawn, who died in 2017 at just 43, is often credited for changing the face of downtown Glens …

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Car show weekend

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

It’s “Vroom” time.

The Albany Rods & Kustoms Club’s 34th annual Adirondack Nationals car show returns to Lake George Village this weekend, while the Adirondack Corvette Club’s annual VetteFest is back in downtown Glens Falls.

1,500 colorful, souped up, reconditioned hot rods, classic and antique cars from 1979 or earlier are signed up for the Adirondack Nationals Muscle Car Show, Thursday through Sunday, Sept. …

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LGA & LG Park Commission: We’re buddies

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

The Lake George Association and the Lake George Park Commission issued a press release Tuesday saying their fight over use of ProcellaCOR is over and they are “committed to collaboration.”

The LGA at the same time issued “initial results from ProcellaCOR monitoring” of the herbicide’s use in two bays June 29.

In Jelliffe-Knight Bay, the LGA said it found “complete killing” of Eurasian watermilfoil [EWM] …

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Diana Palmer wary of GF taking a $4-million bond for Market Square project

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

At the Aug. 27 Glens Falls Common Council meeting, Ward 3’s Diana Palmer stressed that the council should get more information before being asked to approve a bond measure for almost $4 million for the Market Square downtown revitalization project on South Street.

She indicated that Jeff Flagg, the city’s economic development director, had suggested at the previous council meeting that a resolution to …

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Crystal Gayle wowed full house at Wood

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Crystal Gayle, the Grammy-winning, crossover country-pop star most famous for “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” sold out the 300-seat Wood Theater in a show hosted by promoter Kevin Richards last Thursday, Aug. 29.

Dressed in red, black and lots of silver sparkle, the artist won over the mostly older, universally welcoming crowd with sultry vocals on her county classics and covers, an …

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