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By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Riding an international rock-climbing wave, Rocksport Indoor Climbing Gym is relocating this spring from the Sports Page on Quaker Road to their own $1.7-million, 8,400-square-foot facility on Carey Road in Queensbury. A grand opening is tentatively scheduled for early April.

“In the last three years, our business has grown so fast that we can’t stay where we are,” said Tom Rosecrans, a retired Queensbury …

Winter Carnival Issue Chad went to Space Camp. Bill Stock gives hospital $1-million. Max in India. Rachel Seeber to challenge John Strough in Queensbury. Nikas lands $500,000 grant to rehab former Masonic building. Looking into Aeon Nexus loan. SGF Marathon Dance selects 40 beneficiaries. Winter Carnival goes on without ice. Page after page of things to do. The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

One theme throughout this week’s Chronicle arts section seems to be good turnouts for events of all stripes.

The Battenkill Chorale continues that storyline. Late-arriving ticket-holders scrambled to find seats before the concert started last Sunday at Zankel Music Hall on the campus of Skidmore College. Others late-comers hoping to purchase tickets were turned away for lack of space.

The draw? A concert entitled …

By David Cederstrom, Chronicle Staff Writer

John and Margaret Sawyer of Glens Falls took two major bicycle trips in 2016 — a month-long mountain bike journey through Vietnam and Cambodia, followed by a 51-day, 3,185-mile, coast-to-coast pedal “from St. Augustine, Fla., across the deep South…to San Diego.”

The trips were part of an eight-month sabbatical that the couple — he a doctor, she a nurse — took to mark John’s …

Winter Home Issue Glens Falls women’s march. Trump the unifier. Restoring Lang Rig’s conservatory. Blood test data excluded in West’s boat death trial. No Rachael Ray benefit this year. Bennington Furniture owner buys Mark Plaza for $3.6-million. Esmond Lyons mural at Crandall Park mansion. Ice bar mania! ‘Super Troopers’ review. Page after page of things to do. The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

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