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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The owners of the nursing home Elderwood at North Creek have submitted to the state a draft closure plan. The home’s administrators say it needs a $2.5 million grant from the state to stay open.

“We are not in closure,” Elderwood Administrator Heidi Schempp said at the April 16 Johnsburg Town Board meeting. “We are operating as normal and providing all the services and …

By Ben Westcott & Mark Frost

Chronicle Staff Writer & Editor

In a stinging defeat for the Lake George Association and vindication of the Lake George Park Commission and Adirondack Park Agency, the Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court reversed Supreme Court Judge Robert Muller’s 2023 ruling and set the stage for using the aquatic herbicide ProcellaCOR EC as soon as this spring to combat Eurasian milfoil in …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

DiLo’s Heavenly Donuts is becoming DiLo’s Good Eats and Heavenly Sweets — and moving into a permanent home in Hudson Falls.

Chris and Lucia DiLorenzo bought 25 Feeder Street, former home of Bonnie & Clyde’s take-out food business, for $25,000 from the Washington County LDC.

They plan to expand.

“We’re still going to have our doughnuts, obviously,” like their “famous” Holy Cannoli — a …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

They didn’t know it, but Jasmine Luellen’s four children were getting prepared for a surprise family trip to Disney World in Florida, when tragedy struck on June 12, 2022.

Jasmine’s 8-year-old son Quinton Delgadillo and fiancé Jamie Persons, 38, were killed “by an intoxicated motorcyclist driving recklessly in the Town of Lake George,” as Warren County describes it.

Jasmine was honored at the County’s …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The past winter’s Ice Castle event [officially, Winter Realms] did “a significant amount of damage” to the Festival Space at Charles Wood Park in Lake George, County Superintendent of Public Works Kevin Hajos told the Friday, April 26, meeting of the Facilities Committee. He distributed pictures.

“I don’t have the cost yet but I can tell you we had to put 176 hours of …