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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Broomsticks and ghostly haunts, we are flying high and terrified, laughing our way though ghouls and gore.

Halloween is back, with a full slate of “Spooky Season” events to prove it. Here are some of the hauntings around here.

Hauntings galore

• Fright Fest, weekends through October. The Great Escape, Queensbury. “Thrills by Day” Boo Fest for kids, “Frights by Night” scary stuff after 5.

Chronicle reporter Ben Westcott writes: At the Oct. 11 Glens Falls Board of Public Safety meeting, Mayor Bill Collins argued that Public Safety shouldn’t consider neighbors’ opinions when making public right-of-way decisions.

The mayor said that if neighborhood opinion controls, “we’d never put a new sidewalk into this city, or a new bike lane. We know that anybody who doesn’t have a sidewalk today wouldn’t vote for one.

“We look …

By Maury Thompson, Special to The Chronicle

Using a chicken and egg metaphor, a townwide property revaluation in Johnsburg about two years ago hatched a greater awareness of town government.

Revaluations, when property values are adjusted to match market trends, are nearly always controversial.

In Johnsburg, controversy over the accuracy of the methodology was magnified, as it was the first revaluation in the town in about 50 years.
As attendance …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Glens Falls plans a groundbreaking ceremony at 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20, for the long-awaited “Event and Market Center” on South Street, downtown.

The $5 million project is a signature piece of the City’s $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant awarded by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2016.

“The Event and Market Center is expected to be transformative,” Mayor Bill Collins said in the …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

Three senior citizens at Cronin High Rise said one was assaulted, and all were harassed by a group of youths Monday morning, October 16, at around 11 a.m.

Larry Carter, 69, told The Chronicle a youth struck him from behind while he was in the “gazebo on the property for Cronin.”

Mr. Carter was with two other women, also senior Cronin residents.

“These kids …