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Our November 7 Issue

Prime Time Seniors issue Mark Scialabba World Series champ 2019!. Stefanik takes lead vs. Dems & Schiff: Impeachment. GF School panel: Keep valedictorian & class rank. Veterans Day doings. Halloween storm torrential, windy, damaging. Glens Falls Planning Board OK’s site plan 6-1: Ridge St. Stewart’s. Elaine Williams, after 50 years as nurse for Glens Falls Hospital, retiring. Retirement gift to himself: A dog. Rock will roll at the Queensbury Hotel. …

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Look, ma, no hands! but repairs on way

The faces on the landmark clock on Glen Street were alarmingly bare of late, when the hands on the south face were removed.

But its time isn’t over permanently.

“The clock is being fixed,” Chuck Gohn said in response to a Chronicle query.

Mr. Gohn is the president of Associates of Glens Falls, the insurance agency that owns the clock and stands just behind it.

“It’s a finicky, 100-plus-year-old clock. …

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Tony DeSare CD #3 on Billboard jazz list

Lush Life, the newly released album by Hudson Falls classmates Tony DeSare and Tedd Firth, has debuted at #3 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz chart.

Number-one is Blue World by the pioneering saxophonist John Coltrane, who died in 1967.

Number-two is Halloween perennial It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Vince Guaraldi. It dates from 1966.

When Tony and Tedd performed their two sold-out concerts at Hudson Falls’s Strand Theatre …

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5 vie for the 4 Queensbury at-large seats on Warren County Board

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Five candidates — four Republicans and a Democrat — are vying for Queensbury’s four at-large Warren County supervisor seats in the Nov. 5 election.

Three of the four Republicans are incumbents: Doug Beaty, Michael Wild, Brad Magowan.

The fourth Republican, Rachel Seeber, previously served two terms on the board, then left two years ago to challenge incumbent Democrat John Strough for Town Supervisor. She …

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Let’s talk dogs

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

The BBC reported last week on a study that found heart attack survivors who have dogs live significantly longer than those who don’t. It postulated that dog owners walk more, thus improving their health.

I — and any dog owner — can tell you it’s true but only part of the reason. Dogs make you feel better across the board. Who doesn’t benefit from a …

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