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By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Staff Writer

The Queensbury Planning Board voted unanimously on April 10 to recommend to the Town Board that the zoning at 59 West Mountain Rd. be changed from Residential Commercial to a Planned Resort Development to accommodate the Woods at West Mountain alpine ski village proposal. The decision came after the panel held six special meetings on the project.

Chairman Stephen Traver and Board Members Will …

Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: A couple of quick take-aways from the first-ever staged reading of The Last American Newspaper, former Post Star editor Ken Tingley’s first-ever play, based on his memoir of the same title, hosted by Capital Repertory Theater in Albany on April 2 as part of their “Next Act New Play Summit.”

Kudos to Ken; it’s no small thing to write a book or a play.…

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

The owners of 333 Glen Street — most recently known as the Travelers Building ­ — have put up for commercial lease the half-acre open space where Bay and Glen Streets meet facing the Civil War monument. They’re asking $1,400,000.

Mark Levack of Levack Real Estate is the leasing agent for 333 Glen Street Associates LLC.

In 2020 developer Chris Patten proposed but eventually …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Andrew Kopf, 32, is betting big on John Street. He calls it “the South Street of Hudson Falls.”

John Street has “many reputations,” he says. “It has fallen, and it will come again, just like Hudson Falls Village will.

“It only makes sense as Glens Falls develops, the neighboring communities are going to develop. They just will. Hudson Falls is still a cheaper place …

Zander Frost reports: In a change of plans, the Glens Falls Farmers Market will begin its Summer Season on Saturday, May 3 inside in Aviation Mall — and then plans “to move into the new Market Center” on South Street “on Saturday, June 7.”

The market had previously planned to start its summer season on Maple Street “due to ongoing construction on South Street.”

Now, the Farmers Market said in …