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By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Rich Morin, who owns Rich Morin’s Professional Scuba Centers in Glens Falls, will teach underwater Crime Scene Investigation in a pioneering 10-week course this summer at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury.

The course, not yet for credit, is geared to any student in the 64-school SUNY system and to criminal justice majors at other colleges and universities. It will run five days a week from …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Everything came apart — or maybe together — for Erica Fenton of Glens Falls in 2014.

She suffers from bipolar disorder that she says she was masking with a serious addiction to alcohol and prescription benzodiazepines. She says her husband Joe finally threatened to leave and take their then-nine-year-old daughter Grace with him.

“I tried to commit suicide,” Erica says was her response. “I …

Heath & Fitness Quarterly issue Queensbury Hotel sale advances Glens Falls as tourist destination. Otto Miller coming home to retrofitted apartment. Talking openly about mental illness. ACC sets underwater CSI. Luisa’s Italian Bistro closes. $15 minimum wage and paid family leave now law in NY. OK for Holiday Inn at Exit 18. Stewart’s $1.74 million Holiday Match sets record. Local grad’s life of wander. Lots of real estate listings. Looking …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Ed Moore’s purchase of the Queensbury Hotel — finalized Monday, for an undisclosed price — is a colossal step forward for the progress of downtown Glens Falls.

Mr. Moore is a serious player. He created the French Mountain Commons outlet stores at Northway Exit 20 in Queensbury and now also owns the Log Jam Outlet Center across the road.

The Staten Island native was also …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

“As of now, my intentions are to run for supervisor,” Republican Rachel Seeber, 40, told The Chronicle Tuesday, setting up a possible race in 2017 against two-term incumbent Democrat John Strough, 65.

We contacted Ms. Seeber after hearing from several sources that she was mulling a run. Last November she won her second two-year term as a Queensbury at-large county supervisor.

Mr. Strough, who …