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Autumn Home issue | 25th Taste of the North Country. Official pull out program in this issue. Best balloon fest ever? Trying to save the Gooley Club buildings. Warrensburg Garage Sale. New gun shop and indoor shooting range to open. Peter Hoffman starts renovation of former Post Office. Rotary to honor five ‘exceptional’ women. Wild Adriatic’s two-day music fest at Queensbury Hotel this Friday and Saturday. Lots of real …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

“We’re closing Cirelli’s Osteria,” chef-owner Michael Cirelli told The Chronicle Monday. “Financially the overhead is too much.” He said the restaurant’s last night will be Saturday, Oct. 28.

“We just lost our mojo,” he said. “We started out on the wrong foot and we ended on the wrong foot,” noting that they at first tried to serve Italian and TexMex food before concentrating on …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The second annual Adirondack Film Festival will kick off Thursday, Oct. 19, with a free screening of 2004’s Miracle — about the 1980 U.S. hockey victory in Lake Placid over the Soviet Union — on the jumbotron scoreboard at Cool Insuring Arena (formerly Glens Falls Civic Center).

The festival headlining event is a 30th anniversary screening of cult favorite The Princess Bride, …

Health & Fitness issue Incredibly busy weekend! Adirondack Balloon Festival starts today, goes through Sunday. Bolton retailer Happy Jack’s to open in Glens Falls, on Exchange Street. Rachel Seeber wins Conservative Party line. Cirelli’s Osteria in South Glens Falls to close. 42 restaurants in this years Taste of the North Country on Sunday, Oct. 1st. Bolton to host Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall through Sept. 25th. Fiber Fest this weekend. …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The 10th annual McDonnell Music Festival Concert is Saturday, Sept. 16, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge on Cronin Road in Queensbury. Info: www.curefa.org.

The event is organized by musician Dave McDonnell, frontman of the Marcabes classic rock group, and his son Dylan. It benefits FARA — the Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance.

Dylan, who turns 40 at the end of September, …