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Hadley Mountain won’t have a steward, after cabin break-in

By David Cederstrom, Chronicle Staff Writer

Every summer the Hadley Mountain Fire Tower Committee hires a Summit Steward to assist and educate hikers on Hadley Mountain in Saratoga County, but vandalism this spring at the observer’s cabin near the summit has interrupted the program this year, committee chair Linda Ranado tells The Chronicle.

She said that as many as 20,000 hikers per year make the 1.8-mile trek to the fire …

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Swam length of Lake George

By David Cederstrom, Chronicle Staff Writer

David Dammerman swam the 32-mile length of Lake George, north to south, in what is thought to be record time this past weekend as a lead-up to the Lake George Marathon Swim planned for Sept. 17-18.

“It was certainly by far the hardest swim I’ve ever undertaken,” the 47-year-old from Saratoga told The Chronicle. He’s an experienced distance swimmer, including having swum the Engish …

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Our June 23 issue

Graduation Chronicle! 60 big pages! Raves about Merrill Magee meal. David Dammerman swims length of Lake George. Max travels to snow-capped Caucasus. Our intern’s first hot air balloon flight. Will Smith & JUST Water. Adirondack Theatre open season, expecting 1,000 subscribers. More Fort Ann motocross. Phil Morse, part two. 2nd Adirondack Wine & Food Fest back in Lake George. If you’re bored then you’re not reading our HUGE Arts & …

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Let’s Be Leonard — the boys on the bus

GF-bred band took to the road in pink & aqua tour bus

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Let’s Be Leonard, the Glens Falls-bred progressive jam-rock-jazz band, is doing its first-ever tour in style — in a salmon pink-and aqua-blue tour bus. The eye-catching vehicle is a converted school bus the five guys in the band renovated themselves, with a little help from family and friends, says drummer Paul Guay.…

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GF Foundation in $180,000 initiative, aims to break ‘cycle of poverty’

By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

The Glens Falls Foundation has committed $180,000 — $60,000 each to Crandall Public Library, the Family Service Association of Glens Falls and the Open Door Mission — in a broad-based initiative that aims to achieve breakthrough progress overcoming multi-generational poverty that is widespread in its Warren, Washington and northern Saratoga County service area.

“Nearly one in five children in Warren and Washington Counties lives in …

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