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Big Memorial Day issue BIG 56 pages! Whitehall’s Lexy Brooks is ‘Young Woman’ on go. Local kids soar at Proctor, win musical awards. Mayor Diamond throws Post-Star weekly back on their driveway. Elvis Fest starts next Wednesday. Lake George Tiki Tours gets 1-year trial. Park Commission also OKs jet ski tours at Twin Birches. Brad Paisley selfie at SPAC. Fort Edward’s Canal Street Marketplace. Memorial Day Parade schedule. More Max …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

It’s good to be Joseph Girard III these days. Having quarterbacked the Glens Falls High School football team as it won the state title in November, the sophomore then led the basketball team to a 24-1 record and was voted first-team All-State in Class B for the second straight year and second-team sophomore All-American.

He has already scored 2,157 points in three years of …

Prime Time Seniors issue Joseph Girard’s rising profile. Star power at South High. How government money is spent is so screwed up. Post-Star pushback. Park Commission to Tiki Tours; No alcohol for first year; they object. Cornell’s Auto Parts pays for hand controls for Otto Miller’s car. New owners at Ciro’s in Luzerne. Feigenbaum Cleaners, 3rd generation and its 100th year. Pet Fest on Saturday. Max in India. Laura Roth’s …

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Another 11 adults were set to graduate Tuesday this week from a customized seven-month, 500-hour machine tool course at the Southern Adirondack Education Center — better known as BOCES, on Dix Avenue in Hudson Falls.

Better jobs are the immediate prospect.

“This is very much a program driven by the local employers,” says course instructor Jason Viele.

“They say we can’t get enough people that …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will use solar-powered “prism beacons” — 360-degree flashes of light from sunup to sundown — to try to deter gulls and ducks this summer from coming to Million Dollar Beach and swimming area in Lake George Village.

DEC says the popular beach will “safely” open for the season on Memorial Day Weekend.

The prism beacon plan …