By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
At 23, racer Demetrios Drellos — touted as “The Greek Streak” — has been knocking on the door with numerous second- and third-place finishes at Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven, Vermont, but Sunday, Aug. 3, he barged right through it.
Track publicist Justin St. Louis enthused, “Queensbury, N.Y., youngster Drellos blasted through the Pepsi Sportsman Modified field from his 17th-place starting position on the …
Read More »By Meg Hagerty, Chronicle Freelance
If it’s a calm morning on Lake George in the summer, kids know to start showing up at about 7 at Pete Collins’ house.
Usually the 83-year-old Mr. Collins is already up and about with his cup of coffee, and when there are at least a couple of kids hanging out on his dock, the Cleverdale man fires up his boat.
These kids, most in …
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Prime-Time Seniors issue Keeping the Glens Falls in Glens Falls Toyota. Pete Collins at 83. Fast-growing organic meat farmer buys & son to manage Pole Valley Golf. Operation Santa cancels December gala at the Sagamore; seeks individual donors. SUNY Adk. will open Sept. 9. Racer Demetrios Drellos of Queensbury wins big in Vt. at Devil’s Bowl Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!…
Read More »Editor’s note: As The Chronicle nears its 40th anniversary on Sept. 2, here is another article from our archive. It was an exclusive that we published on May 22, 1986, written by Chronicle editor Mark Frost and his University of Maryland School of Law classmate Clark Shaffer.
It was big local news when Frank J. LaPere was arrested here on Nov. 4, 1984. Drug enforcement agents swooped in on his …
Read More »By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Coronavirus brought one downstate man and his family to an unexpected and eye-opening first trip to Lake George; now they’re sold on it.
They stayed at Dunham’s Bay Resort, whose manager Matthew Taormino alerted The Chronicle to their story.
Benzion Freundlich, who also goes by the first name Benson, is a native of England who transplanted to the United States about 20 years ago, …
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