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Winter Home Issue Glens Falls & Saratoga YMCAs eyeing merger. Monahan guilty. Marathon Dance. What is Siplon’s strategy? Dome sale nears. Glens Falls plans Mermaid Festival in June. Francis & Lois Schafer donate $200k to The Glen’s Memory Care. Fast oil change biz eyes Aviation Rd. site where Lake George Baking is. Argyle woman, 22, ‘repeatedly bitten’ by her dog; hospitalized but home now. Thunder this week: Three home games …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

CHRONICLE EXCLUSIVE: Discussions are far along that could merge the Glens Falls YMCA into the Saratoga Regional YMCA, The Chronicle has learned.

A member of the Saratoga Y board told The Chronicle that under current discussions, “Glens Falls would officially be part of the Saratoga Regional YMCA, and they would fall under our administrative team, our operations, things like that.”

The Glens Falls Y …

By Zander Frost, Chronicle Staff Writer

The ‘Take 5’ chain that changes the oil while you sit in your vehicle is proposing to build at 538 Aviation Road in Queensbury, current location of Lake George Baking Company.

Quattro Development proposes replacing the bakery on the .65 acre lot with a 1,720+ square feet “Take 5 express automobile change facility.”

The application is scheduled to go before the Queensbury Planning Board …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Neighbors on Bloody Pond Road in Lake George oppose a 26-unit senior housing development proposed by Richard Schermerhorn, but the group that some have dubbed the “Bloody Pond Road gang” says it’s less about pitchforks and torches, more about communicating and seeking a solution.

The project goes back before the Lake George Town Planning Board for a second public hearing Tuesday evening, Jan. 23, …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

As of last week, Battenkill Valley Creamery is no longer selling its milk and other products at the Glens Falls Farmers Market.

Asked about it, owner Seth McEachron tells The Chronicle that, prompted by conversations about the new Market Center coming to South Street, “I heard there were some kind of uncertainties of what was going to be happening with the Market, so I …