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Planning Board 16 item agenda this Tues., 9/3

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The Glens Falls Planning Board has 16 projects coming before it on Tuesday, Sept. 3. It starts at 4:45 p.m. at City Hall.
Among items on the agenda:

Chris Patten’s One Washington Street Development, LLC for his proposed Washington Square project seeks rezoning of 13 E North Notre Dame Street and 16 Harlem Street — both empty sites — from singlefamily high-density residential to …

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Our August 29 front page

Labor Day Issue Slew of Glens Falls projects. Balloon Fest times. Cannabis Fall Line plan. Cole’s Woods, what!? Red Lobster closes. Washington Co. amends its Occupancy Tax so all short-term rentals must pay 4%. LG Independence Fest: 3 days, 22 bands, 2 stages. Drag Queen hour. Concerts, comedy, shows… The Chronicle always has the region’s best Arts & Entertainment section!

Click to download front page as a PDF.

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Uncommon Grounds to open in Queensbury Sept. 4

Chronicle Staff Writer Zander Frost reports: Uncommon Grounds will open in Queensbury next Wednesday, Sept. 4, at 751 Glen Street, the former site of Recovery Grill, General Manager Emily Ellenbogen told The Chronicle.
 
The location will roast its own coffee and make bagels from scratch on-site every morning.
 
Uncommon Grounds is holding open job interviews now.

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OK sought for 4-story apartment building, 5 Sherman Ave.

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Donald Sweetser plans to construct a four-story building with 32 apartments at 5 Sherman Avenue, said an application submitted to the Glens Falls Planning Board.

It would go where a three-story apartment building was destroyed by fire in spring 2014. That building resembled the 7 Bemis Place apartments next-door, also owned by the Sweetsers.

The project — envisioning 12 studio and 20 one-bedroom apartments …

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Fire damages Cole’s Woods Bridge; Police: not ‘natural cause’

The City of Glens Falls reported fire damage to a footbridge in Cole’s Woods.
“Two 9-1-1 calls were received in the early morning of Saturday, Aug. 24, reporting that a footbridge in Cole’s Woods was smoldering,” said the City.
“The footbridge is located on the ‘Long Diagonal’ section of the Cole’s Woods Tom Jacobs Race Loop Trail.”
The bridge crosses Halfway Brook.
“The fire is not believed to have had

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