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Our Winter Home issue! Lake George freezes over. Local ice bars are hot! JUST Beverages lawsuit settled. South High Marathon Dance: students select 44 beneficiaries. Glens Falls hockey future. Ken & Holly Wheelers’ retirement plan – fix up old homes to rent. Enter our Super Bowl contest – details on page 3. Hyde draws smaller crowds for opening – $30 fee to blame? Mid-winter arts and entertainment scene in full …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

It should be pretty clear by now that the Adirondack Flames won’t be here much longer.

The AHL Westward Expansion dominoes continued to fall last week. The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk reported on Jan. 8 that the Anaheim Ducks, as expected, will buy the Norfolk Admirals and move them to San Diego.

The next day, the Stockton Record in California cited “the impending sale of …

Our Health & Fitness Quarterly! How locals keep warm while working outside. Sally Field has Glens Falls roots. Still a split in airport runway project. Glens Falls to launch “Art District.” Adk. Flames heading west…will Albany Devils end up here? Peter Hoffman to spend $1 million to fix up old Glens Falls Post Office. Coffee Planet closes. Gordon, Cathy – yoga thoughts. SGF’s Cardo Urso and the UFC. Mid-winter arts …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

The Friends of Camp Little Notch has raised $427,000 in three months and expects to buy the 443-acre former Girl Scout camp in West Fort Ann.

“I’m very confident we will hit our goaland then some,” Friends of Camp Little Notch president Jo Lum told The Chronicle.

“We met with the Open Space Institute [OSI] on Monday, and they know where we stand. We …

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

The weather is frigid, and if last winter is any guide, Lake George is well on its way to freezing over completely.

“Last year we had a lot of ice cover in early January, but it went out and then came back, and the lake completely froze over on January 23rd,” said Larry Eichler, research scientist with the Darrin Fresh Water Institute (FWI) in …