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This week is our Autumn Bridal issue with an 8-page special insert. Big local happenings in the coming week including the Adirondack Balloon Festival (starts Thursday 9/18) and the Lake George In-Water Boat Show this weekend in Lake George. 40 restaurants are participating in the 22nd annual Glens Falls Kiwanis Club’s Taste of the North Country on Sunday, Sept. 28, including more than a dozen new participants. State champ football …

Big happenings in this week’s issue! The Adirondack Nationals car show in Lake George starts Thursday, Sept. 4  with 1,500 hot rods and classics to feast your eyes on. If you prefer Corvettes, head on over to the Ramada Inn, Queensbury for VetteFest, Sept. 5-7. We also cover LocalFest in Glens Falls; the Fiddlers Jam in Thurman; Washington County Cheese Tour; Sandy Hill Days in Hudson Falls; Wine & Food …

By David Cederstrom, Chronicle Staff Writer

“I think it’s too much for the state to expect that private citizens and local government are going to pick up the water that, frankly, the state should be carrying,” Assemblyman Dan Stec told the 129th annual meeting of the Lake George Association on Friday, Aug. 22.

Mr. Stec, the meeting’s keynote speaker, praised the funding help from local municipalities and groups such as …

By Jason Irwin, Chronicle Rock Columnist

“What a beautiful night for a concert. What a treat to be here at SPAC in my hometown tonight,” were Rich Ortiz’s opening words to the near-full amphitheater and lawn crowd last Tuesday evening, August 19.

Mr. Ortiz, a Queensbury grad now living in Saratoga Springs, was the opening act for veteran acts Chicago and REO Speedwagon on this stop on the co-headliners’ national …

By Cathy DeDe

Judith Mysliborski, a retired Albany dermatologist who lives in Voorheesville near Albany can’t remember when she started collecting kaleidoscopes, but she recalls the first one she ever had.

“As a kid,” she says, “I had one of those paper ones. I had this little plastic blue toy box, and I remember some of the toys that were in there. That was one.”

Dr. Mysliborski’s old toy is …