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Labor Day Issue Lake George’s Logan Marissal wrestles way into Harvard. GF Police: Group of juveniles in crime spree. Hannah’s college advice. Drug overdose deaths. FW Webb pulls rezone request; look elsewhere. Qby. students playing on new turf fields. Stefanik: Biden Education chief sought to defund shooting sports classes in schools; yields to outcry. 1,000 athletes to run-swim-bike at 17th LG Triathlon. LG school is now The Lakers; beat Falcons, …
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Great Escape: ‘The Bobcat’ wooden coaster coming ’24
The Great Escape announced its “largest investment in nearly 25 years” with “The Bobcat,” a new wooden coaster
arriving in 2024.
arriving in 2024.“Run like a bobcat along this wooden family coaster’s track, the first-of-its-kind in Six Flags history. The Bobcat has all the charm of a classic wooden coaster enhanced by modern innovation to take you on a wild ride the whole family will love,” said a press release.
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FW Webb pulls rezone request; look elsewhere
By Zander Frost & Mark Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer & Editor
F.W. Webb has withdrawn its request to re-zone a 15-acre site on Quaker Road so it could build a 76,000 square-foot distribution center and store across from Garvey Volkswagen and Kia.
Why withdraw the application?
“I can read the room,” F.W. Webb Chief Operating Officer Bob Mucciarone told The Chronicle Tuesday. “We’re getting the stall. It takes three weeks …
Read More »When George Washington traveled Lake George: 1783
Editor’s note: This story is excerpted with permission from the Summer 2023 edition of the Fort George Post, The Newsletter of the © Lake George Battlefield Park (Fort George) Alliance.
By Dr. Russell P. Bellico
Two years after the British surrender at Yorktown and with the cessation of hostilities, a semblance of tranquility enveloped the lake valleys.
In the spring of 1782 George Washington established his headquarters in Newburgh …
Read More »‘Super Blue Moon’ Aug. 30
By Hannah Hughes, Chronicle Summer Staff
On Wednesday, August 30, there will be a “Super Blue Moon,” an event that won’t happen
again until 2032, according to the website Time and Date.
Full moons can occur at any point in the moon’s rotation. A supermoon is when the moon is full and near or at the perigree (the moon’s closest point to Earth), making it appear bigger and brighter than …
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