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By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor

Queensbury Hotel owner Ed Moore has purchased the former TD Bank property next-door for $1.2-million. He told The Chronicle the closing occurred Thursday, Dec. 12.

Mr. Moore said he has no specific plans for the property he said is nearly two acres stretching from Maple Street to Washington Street.

“Someday at some point we’ll probably do something with it — expand, do something.

“The first …

By Ben Westcott, Chronicle Editor

Grumbellies has found a new home — in downtown Fort Edward in the former Glens Falls National Bank building at 159 Broadway that closed in 2021.

Irma Hamblin told The Chronicle they are purchasing the property for $215,000.

“We signed the paperwork and I gave them the down payment,” she said.

“We haven’t been through our closing yet. That should be coming.” They hope to …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Stephanie Guzik-Lendrum went from lab-coated biophysicist-biochemist to self-described “Christmas elf.”

The 2001 Queensbury grad earned her bachelor’s degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and then her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in cell and development biology.

She came back to work at RPI, but in 2018 she left abruptly, after what she describes as uncomfortable fallout from an equipment failure. It led her …

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Glens Falls Mayor Bill Collins drew scrutiny over spending $6,000 of the city’s Warren County Occupancy Tax money to hire The McKrells to perform twice at the city’s Adirondack Holiday Festival last week.

Mr. Collins has a business relationship with band frontman Kevin McKrell through Celtic Attitudes, the Mayor’s Irish-themed screenprinted casualwear shop on Maple Street.

The men are also personal friends.

The Mayor …

Chronicle staff writer Caroline Martindale reports: The City of Glens Falls passed a resolution at the Nov. 26 Common Council Meeting raising parking fees at the Park Street Garage.

In the new fee schedule the first two hours are free. Additional time costs $5 per hour. The daily maximum is $25.

Previously parking was free for the first 30 minutes and $2 for every additional hour or $12 for the …