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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The financial spreadsheet that Mayor Bill Collins presented to the Warren County Occupancy Tax Committee in support of his request for a $100,000 grant in 2025 is more of “a working document,” he tells The Chronicle.

The total expenditure is just shy of $226,000 on the document the Mayor headlined “Glens Falls Business Improvement District Event Growth Budget.”

The Oc Tax committee approved it …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

“It’s about the kids,” is the repeated mantra from a small roomful of big guys raising big bucks in the Small Business Challenge for the local charity Operation Santa Claus.

We’re stuffed tight into the studio of WCKM radio station 98.5 FM, where morning hosts Dan Miner and Pete Cloutier are joined by about a half-dozen men promoting the Challenge that the late Pete …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

Medical massage clinic Outta Sight Massotherapy, located in the Mount Royal Plaza on Route 9 in Queensbury, gets its name from the fact that one of its owners, Brianna Gregory, a 2008 Queensbury grad, is legally blind.

Now, after two years in business, Ms. Gregory, 34, and her fiance John Krieg, 33, are planning to open a new business called Blind Rock Wellness across …

Christmas festivities abound! Blind massage therapist’s Blind Rock plan. Ryan & Erin Connor’s plans for Union Square. Who’ll run for Prez in 2028. Raising $100,000 a year for Operation Santa. Granville’s Dancing Ewe eyes Saratoga for a wine bar; seeks backers: ‘I’m with Ewe’. Glens Falls football falls in state semis. Orvis chief, on closing its LG outlet store. Live Nation bans personal lawn chairs at SPAC; $15 rentals. Lake …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Developer Sonny Bonacio’s team has started work on renovating the former Sandy’s Clam Bar, Hot Shots and “incubator” buildings at South and Elm Streets, key components of Glens Falls’s $10-million Downtown Revitalization Initiative.

“What you’re seeing,” Bonacio spokesperson Larry Novik told The Chronicle, “is the beginning of Phase One, the Sandy’s building, which is 41 South Street, the former Hot Shots building at 45 …