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Hacksaw now does comedy

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Something new for Hacksaw Jim Duggan: The WWE pro wrestling Hall-of-Famer and Glens Falls High School football great is now touring with a one-man stand-up comedy show.

On February 2, Hacksaw — still “Moose” Duggan to locals who grew up with him in the 1960s and ’70s — opens his latest tour of the Northeast with a hometown show at Sweet Basil Comedy Club …

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Let’s Be Leonard’s delicious jam-rock debut: ‘COW.’

By Patrick Daley, Chronicle Staff Writer

Let’s Be Leonard is young, talented and fun. With members hailing from Glens Falls, Queensbury, Saratoga Springs and Clifton Park, the jam-rock quintet released their debut album COW. in late November. It’s an impressive first release from lead singer and guitarist Karl Bertrand, lead guitarist and singer Matt Griffin, tenor saxophonist Connor Dunn, bassist Chris Cronin and drummer Paul Guay, …

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Bethels sell 132 Glen St. Bistro; Rocco’s Italian-American buys

By Gordon Woodworth, Chronicle News Editor

Rocco Ientile, who owned Rocco’s Pizza shops in Fort Edward, Queensbury and Corinth, will open Rocco’s Italian-American Bistro at 132 Glen Street in downtown Glens Falls.

Mr. Ientile said he paid $225,000 for the building that formerly housed Kevin and Patty Bethel’s 132 Glen Bistro. There are also two rented apartments upstairs, he said.

He said he hopes to open the restaurant by the …

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Return of the ice bars

Icing up: The Sagamore and Dunham’s Bay, Adk. Brewery and Cirelli’s

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Ice is cool again. And ice bars are hot.

The Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing, Dunham’s Bay Resort overlooking Lake George, Cirelli’s Osteria in South Glens Falls, and now the Adirondack Pub and Brewery in Lake George Village: This year all four will offer outdoor bars carved from massive blocks of ice.

Typically …

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