By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
The Glens Falls City School District will ask residents to approve spending $240,000 to buy a 1.3-acre property just north of the district’s bus garage on Glenwood Avenue in Queensbury.
Superintendent Paul Jenkins terms it “a wise investment for the taxpayers.”
The vote is set for Tuesday, Jan. 23, from noon to 9 p.m., at Sanford Street School.
School officials say they need more …
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The Town of Chester celebrated its new wood pellet boiler, a $50,000 donation from the Peckham Family Foundation, and the purchase of the 104-acre Cunningham Community Forest at a Nov. 29 ribbon-cutting.
The biomass boiler, which will burn wood pellets, and its steam accumulator thermal storage are being touted by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) as a demonstration project …
Read More »By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor
“This is the kind of thing that makes my job so great,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, the top Democrat in the United States Senate, as he toured four historic buildings in downtown Hudson Falls on Friday, Dec. 8.
“To see all of the activity and the revitalization and the hope in all of these buildings I visited is inspiring.”
Sen. Schumer, with Secret Service …
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Many people in the area have noticed a lack of birds at their feeders this fall, but Jim Farquhar, chief of the Bureau of Wildlife at the state Department of Environmental Conservation, tells The Chronicle that the birds are around, but have been actively foraging on natural foods.
“There’s nothing to indicate that there’s any issues” with bird population numbers, he said.
Mr. Farquhar …
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Elizabeth Miller has chosen Susan Siplon as executive director and Bridget Dunigan as managing director of her massively renovated Park Theater in Glens Falls, The Chronicle has learned.
They’ll both begin work Dec. 18. The theater, on Park Street downtown, aims to open in February or March.
“What a gift Elizabeth Miller is giving to the community, to literally just build this,” Mrs. Siplon …
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